1. How is the "Economic Singularity" defined in the chapter?
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The moment a single global currency is adopted.
The point where AI achieves superintelligence.
The point at which a relevant part of the world's population becomes permanently unemployable due to AI and automation.
A stock market crash caused by algorithmic trading.
2. Historically, the "Luddite fallacy" refers to the argument that:
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Technology always destroys more jobs than it creates.
Technology is inherently evil.
Fears of long-term technological unemployment are wrong because new technologies create new kinds of jobs.
Wooden shoes are effective tools for sabotage.
3. What is Universal Basic Income (UBI)?
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A tax levied on all income earners.
A proposal for an unconditional income granted to all citizens to provide a safety net and maintain consumer demand.
A program to train everyone to become AI programmers.
A law requiring all companies to pay the same income to every employee.
4. According to Catholic social teaching as presented in the chapter (e.g., Laborem Exercens), the dignity of work is rooted in:
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The amount of income it generates.
The fact that through work, a person participates in God's creative activity and achieves fulfillment as a human being.
Its ability to be fully automated.
The social status it provides.
5. Besides loss of income, what is a major psychological challenge of a "post-work" society discussed in the chapter?
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People will have too much free time to exercise.
A potential crisis of meaning, identity, and purpose, as work often provides these for many people.
The difficulty of choosing which virtual reality to inhabit.
The end of all human conflict.