Silicon Valley’s support for the UBI is premised on the notion of AI-driven job losses (Image credit: Antonio Solano / Getty Images)
By Joel Mathis, The Week US
in why everyone’s talking about One of Silicon Valley’s favorite ideas isn’t really tech-driven. The universal basic income — "cash aid from the government, no strings attached" — is the tech industry’s solution to the anticipated wave of job losses created by the rise of artificial intelligence, NPR said. That’s why OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spent the last few years funding an experiment in giving people free money. "Do people sit […]
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