Visitors attend Tokyo Robot Week in September, where the latest AI and robot tech is showcased | David Mareuil/Anadolu/Getty Images. All rights reserved In recent years, one of the most popular arguments for universal basic income (UBI) – a regular cash payment delivered to every individual with no work requirement or means test – has been the fear that automation and artificial intelligence (AI) will someday take our jobs. This, it’s argued, will cause massive unemployment and make UBI a virtual necessity – so we better get cracking.
This argument is often portrayed as the automation argument for UBI, but […]
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