It is just a few days before election time, local elections, May7th 2026. Yes, I've not posted here for years, but I have been standing for election. I came a close to second - third place, in the General Election  of 2024 in Barking after being attacked online and in the media as an anti Semite. I wasn't then and despite the extraordinary unpleasantness I'm still not, I must write about that story soon. It has become the thin end of the now fat wedge attempting to prise the Green Party away from influence.

There are many posts about current events, I shall add a few I hope but there is one MASSIVE <sorry for entering trumpshow mode> element we shall face in the very near future - the rise of the Robots and the AI systems that shall control them.

Self driving cars may very well result in massive unemployment for working drivers. I can't see how this can be avoided. I'm not sure that it should be either. The upsides of AI driving shall be far fewer accidents, vastly more efficient travel times and when matched with AI supervision of country wide stock control dramatically fewer transport trips being required. 'Coals to Newcastle' can be abolished. The pollution effects and the use of fossil fuels for transport shall also fall dramatically even if trade increases to fill the opportunity gap.

The huge question is - what shall people pay their bills with and what shall they do all day. This question crops up every decade or so and has not be answered by any action as yet, but there is a workable answer. It is a right of living payment for every person of working age. This would be more than enough to ensure the enabling of people to not only cover their all costs - which shall be lower due to all the eco-savings we can expect, but also provide a higher quality of life. These profits, gained by employers not paying people to physically do a job, will need to be passed on by any Green thinking government. This is achievable technically and financially, but the difficulty comes when you try to get people to transition over to this dramatically different way of living. It will effectively be a life long pension.

What people will do with their free time is the real problem. In the past, the agricultural revolution freed people from the land and their spare time was taken up by having wars. Today wars are used as a distraction from matters of internal government difficulties and are also used as a hardly hidden land grab for remaining fossil fuel resources. My biggest fear ( not not really ) is that Sport will fill our lives. I hate sport.

And that is just automated driving...

Add to that office and indeed managerial jobs which are already being lost due to AI introduction. Here again massive financial savings shall be made by employers. These will have to be used by government to provide the Life Pensions and thus reduce the chances of riots in the streets.

And - physical Robots themselves. These are almost on sale today at prices about half that of a car - which they could also drive. Humanoid robots are designed to replace any and all human work. Why has no public pundit raised this issue at all in the media? Or - if they have, why has it sunk without trace? I could write a book about this AI enabled future, but that future will probably be with us before I'd finish. 

The reason I don't mention the massive impact of data centres is because I am up to date with modern technology. There are multiple methods or reducing the electrical requirement and thus the water needed for cooling. It costs far less to use this new technology, so new you haven't heard of it, well many Greens have

The incredibly rich people over whom we have no influence will save their cash by using it. I

 trust our government will catch on too !

This is going to happen whatever the environmental impact, but I am telling the big untold story. Thanks for reading it. The impacts of AI are likely to be vastly greater than the environmental impacts - we must be ready !

Promoted by Matt Chadburn on behalf of Simon Anthony (Green Party), both at PO Box 78066 London SE16 9GQ