Expert opinions on Inequality

Having an unconditional series of payments from universal basic income would be an effective safety net for unemployed individuals. [...] Essentially, I'm worried that people who benefit from AI, after the fact, are going to say, 'Well, why do we hav...

I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did. I'm much more interested in ways where we think about kind of collective ownership. [...] [A] fixed cash payment, although useful and maybe a good idea in some ways, does not get at...

Instead of universal basic income, how about we stop taxing nurses who make $75,000 a year? We don't need to give her universal income yet — let's just stop taking money away from her.

In the AI era, it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses. [...] This is important for ensuring that people broadly share in the prosperity created by superintelligence.

Technologies that could free us from drudgery, poverty and environmental collapse instead make life worse for most people in most countries.

Allowing those who are richer to put more in than those who are poor runs counter to any notion that there's any kind of redistributive justice taking place.

A moratorium will give us time to ensure AI is safe and effective, time to protect our privacy and well-being, time to defend our democracy, and time to make sure the economic gains of this technology benefit the general population, not just a handfu...

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology.

The fruits of the AI industry are not the government's "free safe." This is an anti-market idea that goes against market principles and is no different from socialist-style distribution.