Universal income vs the robots: Meet the presidential candidate fighting automation

Universal income vs the robots: Meet the presidential candidate fighting automation

Yang2020 Andrew Yang announced he is vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination back in February . His mission? Preparing America for automation.

But how is he going to do that? I got the chance to sit down with him at the Work Awesome conference in New York yesterday to ask him about his stances on trucking automation, AI policy, and, his favorite topic, universal basic income (UBI).

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