Finland first began experimenting with the concept of UBI in January 2017. It appears that governments across the world are confused, even schizophrenic, about how they deal with advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the human costs they may cause through loss of employment.
I have written before in this column about Finland’s experiment with Universal Basic Income (UBI). Under a UBI programme, all citizens get paid a basic wage whether or not they are employed. Many UBI proponents, including AI entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, have said that they see UBI as the only solution to […]
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