Charles Fain Lehman

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Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal.

Speaks on: AI AI Policy AI Regulation Economics Future Of Work

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Location: United States

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AI will create a permanent underclass
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The economists and AI experts are correct—a permanent underclass is not coming. But the favored solutions of those enamored of the theory—an AI-funded universal basic income (UBI), jobs guarantee, or the like—do threaten to recreate an underclass of ...
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