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Will Robots Take Over? Tesla’s Elon Musk Quotes: 4 Predictions About The Future Of Humanity

Will Robots Take Over? Tesla's Elon Musk Quotes: 4 Predictions About The Future Of Humanity

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk was in Dubai to launch Tesla in the United Arab Emirates at the World Government Summit Monday. The South African billionaire inventor was interviewed onstage and gave his opinion on aliens, artificial intelligence, universal basic income and the future of humanity. Below are some highlights.

Universal basic income will solve the economic problems caused by automation. However, the existential problems that come from a world with few workers will be harder to solve, Musk said . "There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better. I want to be […]

Reader Letter: Social services ministry failing some who need it

Reader Letter: Social services ministry failing some who need it

Richard Dalkeith, left, and Lorena Shepley ask for a show of hands to support an emergency resolution to raise Ontario Works rates during discussions on the Basic Income pilot project Monday at University of Windsor’s Vanier Hall. Re: Windsor input sought on guaranteed income, by Chris Thompson, Jan. 31.

I want to thank Chris Thompson and the Windsor Star for the article regarding the Ontario Minister of Community and Social Services open forum on a guaranteed basic income.

If Canadians understood how perverted and unaccountable Social Services is, they would insist that it be abolished.I know of a disabled man […]

Autonomy Will Force Basic Income, But Then What?

Autonomy Will Force Basic Income, But Then What?

The rise of the autonomous car is likely to drive us to a universal basic income says, Elon Musk — and we’re going to need it soon.

During a talk at the World Government Summit Monday in Dubai, Musk said that despite the convenience of autonomous cars, the technology will disrupt a huge portion of the global workforce. He thinks that universal basic income is going to be necessary and that we’re going to need it within 20 years of the first fully autonomous car hitting the road.

“There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better,” […]

OtherGround Forums universal basic income: It’s going to be necessary

OtherGround Forums universal basic income: It's going to be necessary

http://www.socred.org/index.php/blogs/view/the-big-difference-between-a-basic-income-and-the-national-dividend

It seems that more and more people in various countries are starting to take proposals for the introduction of a basic income quite seriously.

According to the bien network: "A basic income is an income paid by a political community to all its members on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement." Cf. http://www.basicincome.org/bien/aboutbasicincome.html#faqThe Social Credit proposal of a National Dividend can also be defined as ‘… an income paid by a political community to all its members on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement.’However, the National Dividend must not be confused with a basic […]

Elon Musk Says Governments Will Have to Introduce a ‘Universal Basic Income’ for the Unemployed

Elon Musk Says Governments Will Have to Introduce a 'Universal Basic Income' for the Unemployed

Elon Musk has come under fire recently for his decision to remain on Donald Trump’s economic advisory council and his views concerning unionization . On Wednesday, however, he was focused on the future. Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk addressed a wide array of issues that civilization will face in the next hundred years, including how to handle artificial intelligence and the mass unemployment that will result from automation.

"One of the most troubling questions is artificial intelligence," Musk said when asked about the challenges civilization is set to face in the near-future. "Deep artificial intelligence, or […]

The Billionaire Founder of eBay Plans to Give Thousands of Kenyans Free Income for 12 Years

The Billionaire Founder of eBay Plans to Give Thousands of Kenyans Free Income for 12 Years

Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire co-founder of eBay , plans to donate approximately $500,000 to fund a project in Kenya that will give thousands of people a guaranteed regular income.

The program, called, GiveDirectly is being hailed as the most ambitious experiment yet in the concept of universal basic income, or UBI. It will make cash transfers to more than 26,000 people in 200 villages in Kenya, with about 6,000 of those people receiving a long-term basic income for 12 years. The payments of $0.75 per day amount to 50% of typical adult income in rural Kenya.

The concept of a universal […]

Elon Musk doubles down on universal basic income: ‘It’s going to be necessary’ – Business Insider UK

Elon Musk doubles down on universal basic income: 'It's going to be necessary' - Business Insider UK

Business Insider UKElon Musk doubles down on universal basic income: ‘It’s going to be necessary’Business Insider UKIn an interview with CNBC in November 2016, Tesla CEO Elon Musk joined a growing list of tech executives who support universal basic income as a possible solution to the widespread unemployment automation will likely cause. Universal basic income …and more »

– Elon Musk Says Governments Will Have to Introduce a ‘Universal Basic Income’ for the Unemployed – Newsweek

NewsweekElon Musk Says Governments Will Have to Introduce a ‘Universal Basic Income’ for the UnemployedNewsweek"What to do about mass unemployment is going to be […]

As robots take jobs, Europeans mull free money for all

As robots take jobs, Europeans mull free money for all

PARIS — I am, therefore I’m paid.

The radical notion that governments should hand out free money to everyone — rich and poor, those who work and those who don’t — is slowly but surely gaining ground in Europe. Yes, you read that right: a guaranteed monthly living allowance, no strings attached.

In France, two of the seven candidates vying to represent the ruling Socialist Party in this year’s presidential election are promising modest but regular stipends to all French adults. A limited test is already underway in Finland, with other experiments planned elsewhere, including in the United States.Called "universal income" […]

Poverty & Universal Basic Income

Poverty & Universal Basic Income

India, the nation of over 1.25 billion people, till recently was the fastest growing economy of the world. However, the fact that it is home to the world’s largest poor population is also a reality. As per official government statistics, 22 percent of the population in India lives below poverty line, but as per World Bank estimates the ratio hovers around 30 percent. In a survey conducted during 2011-12, it was observed that nearly half of the Indians survived on less than Rs 38 a day. A very grim scenario indeed.

Ironically, despite being a trouble-torn region, JK’s poverty rate […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Basic Income ‘Will Be Necessary’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Basic Income ‘Will Be Necessary'

A universal basic income will become necessary because of all the jobs that will be lost to automation in the coming years, says the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors.

“There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better,” billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk told a crowd on Monday at the World Government Summit in Dubai. “These are not things I wish will happen; these are things I think probably will happen.” Elon Musk, Chairman of SolarCity and CEO of Tesla Motors, speaks at SolarCity’s Inside Energy Summit in Manhattan, New York October 2, 2015. (Photo: Reuters/Rashid […]