Will Universal Basic Income Save Us from AI?

While people will still have jobs, many of those jobs won’t be ones that create a lot of economic value in the way we think of value today

So said Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, in a blog post in 2021. He’s almost certainly correct, and we need to match the technological innovation lead by his company, with the social innovation that enables human beings to have success even as our collective ability to offer economic value decreases. We could simply reduce the amount of work everyone is required to do and buffer everyone’s income with a survival base line. What was radical 5 years ago maybe necessary tomorrow.