Implement a universal basic income

What is reasonable to assume is that with AI, the share of gross domestic product that goes to capital will increase at the expense of the share that goes to labor. There will be fewer workers needed for the same level of production. This can only increase inequality, since capit…

As companies adopt these tools, they will require fewer workers to produce the same or greater output. Universal income would ensure that all Americans can meet their essential needs.

With increasing automation threatening traditional jobs, UBI provides a solution by decoupling income from employment, ensuring no one is left behind.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

Our economy [Hawaii's] is changing far more rapidly than anybody's expected. It is important to be sure that everybody will benefit from the technological revolution that we're seeing to make sure no one's left behind.

AIDC recommends a Universal Basic Income Grant to ensure dignity even in the absence of a functioning labour market.

My Universal Basic Income (UBI) plan provides a guaranteed $1000 every month to every American adult, no strings attached. This isn’t just a policy; it is a permanent floor beneath the feet of every worker, parent, and student.

What basic income does is set a floor, a monetary floor by which no one will fall below. So you want to guarantee that basic income for everybody.

We usually focus on employment and production. Yet, much of the world’s population has no realistic prospects of employment, and we already produce more than what is sustainable. Basic income, however, separates survival from employment or production.

We will pass a universal basic income so every American has the financial security and freedom to build their future.

Eventually, we need some form of universal basic income for everybody while they work and once they retire.

The Greens would replace the current patchwork social security with a universal basic income-based model.

Most importantly, I think it’s the principles behind the idea [of a guaranteed income] that matter. These principles are greater simplicity for the government, greater transparency on the part of families and greater equity for everyone

There is a strong practical case for the Basic Income – it underpins security, replaces the complexity of the current system, and provides a platform for freedom and creativity.

Universal basic income would provide everyone with the means to support themselves, and could dramatically change the welfare system, including addressing the huge costs associated with homelessness. Evidence has shown that it would alleviate poverty, be directly beneficial to pe…

The Council of the City of New York calls on the New York State Legislature to pass, and the Governor to sign S.7591/A.7920, to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing and funding a universal basic income pilot program.

In the capitalism of platforms and AI, we are all productive through our actions, our exchanges, our lives. Hence the urgency of an unconditional basic income, as a tool of remuneration, which recognizes this productivity currently exploited by capital.

We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things.

Adopting a universal basic income for all people can help society think creatively with new ideas, develop new industries — and free-up people to work on important future projects. This practical social support program can grow as science & technology rapidly evolve, becoming par…

The hope is that policies like these can help people struggling just to survive and allow them to get on their feet, be entrepreneurial and be more creative.

[With basic income,] people can rest and recover their freedom. Thus basic income would also unleash innovation [and relieve people from their] existential fears.

There’s no shortage of ideas for how AI’s productivity gains might be redistributed. Those gains could be redistributed through wealth taxes financing childcare, elder care, and healthcare. Or they could be redistributed via a sovereign wealth fund owning half of all AI shares of…

Mechanisms such as universal basic income could be financed through taxes on relevant companies or raising the capital gains tax.

That’s why I’ve proposed the AI Dividend: direct payments to Americans — funded through a token tax on AI usage and government equity stakes in frontier AI firms, designed to automatically kick in on clear economic triggers.

It supports a permanent universal basic income grant set at a level that sustains dignity, financed through redistributive taxation on wealth, concentrated capital and financial speculation, as part of comprehensive social security.

My solution to, frankly, 50 years of economic inequality is a citizen's dividend or universal basic income. I envision a Nevada Permanent Fund through mineral wealth, Tesla and Amazon, direct payments of $1,300 once a month for every Nevadan paid for by these billionaire companie…

The interesting question is not whether AI taxation can fund a post-work utopia. It cannot, at least not on any evidence available today.

It seems fruitless to debate a bigger new entitlement we cannot currently afford to solve a labor-market apocalypse we haven’t yet seen.

The most commonly proposed system, which would pay for that income with the productivity gains from AI, would take a massive effort to implement.

The model being tested in Finland is impossibly expensive, since it would increase the government deficit by about 5 per cent.

A universal basic income that has the ambition to ban poverty from the world, is then immensely expensive. That doesn’t need to surprise you. To give the poor (a minority in society) a basic income, you have to also provide a basic income to the large majority that doesn’t ne…

Well, there’s the fact that a universal basic income could add as much as $2 trillion in annual expenses to the U.S. budget. Then there’s the question of whether such a program might disconnect large swaths of our population from the positive aspects of working for a living—a pot…

We need a strong and targeted social safety net. The building blocks are well-known: unemployment benefits, health care for the poor, scholarships for bright low-income students. Improving the social safety net is devilishly hard, but that’s the problem we need to solve—not how t…

There are fairer ways to spread prosperity than universal basic income Better alternatives include universal public services and a minimum income guarantee

You want your government to think more carefully about targeting programmes that help those in need, rather than universal. That’s a trade-off given the budget constraints on the public sector

Make no mistake: modern welfare states leave plenty to be desired. Disability benefits are for many people an unsatisfactory version of a basic income, providing those who will no longer work with enough to get by. But rather than upend society with radical welfare reforms premis…

UBI does not alleviate poverty and turns social necessities into products for profit. To truly address inequality we need adequate social provisioning. If we want to reduce means testing and dependency on capitalist employment, we can do so with capacity planning. Our political d…

If we are to go on the offensive against the neoliberal agenda, surely it is the fight for free, expanded and accessible public services that should be our focus. If present systems of income support for unemployed, sick and disabled people are inadequate, we can demand full enti…

They present themselves as benefactors, they turn recipients of universal basic income into passive beneficiaries of a system they do not control and, above all, they shift the focus: Instead of questioning the concentration of capital and power, we end up debating the amount of …

Basic income, therefore, is often seen as the Trojan horse that would allow tech companies to position themselves as progressive, even caring – the good cop to Wall Street’s bad cop – while eliminating the hurdles that stand in the way of further expansion. Goodbye to all those …

The right-wing version of UBI (...) is that the government should provide its citizens with a basic income at the subsistence level, while providing no (or little) further goods and services. As far as I can see, this is the version of UBI supported by the Silicon Valley companie…

The problem’s not only income, but what people have to spend it on. Paine didn’t talk about universal income, he talked about everybody should have the right to a place to live, a means of their own self-support. That’s independent from income. Once you economize and financialize…

The oligarchs do not propose structural change. They do not want businesses and the marketplace regulated. They do not support labor unions. They will not pay a living wage to their bonded labor in the developing world or the American workers in their warehouses and shipping cent…

It took a lot of effort to achieve some basic rights, and now neoliberalism is destroying everything: the education system, health care... By giving money to each citizen you are transferring responsibility from the State to the people, so that they can manage as best they can. I…

Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. [...] AI will change work. It will not repeal economics. The best response is not fear-driven universal dependency.

Even the US isn't rich enough to allow people not to work. Some day we will be but until then things like the Earned Income Tax Credit will help increase the demand for labor.

The basic income will further divide society and prevent social mobility. Those who, due to their family background, have good prospects for interesting employment and high income will maintain their existing work ethic, engaging in school and study, and maybe taking a sabbatical…

Paying people a basic income would not remove the fundamental problem that in the digital economy some people will do extraordinarily well and many others find themselves left behind. One oft-heard argument is that if people want more money than basic income provides they can jus…

Getting a monthly cheque could mean not having to take the first crappy job that appears if you get fired or the economy tanks (...) Those crappy jobs might be easier to resist for a while but they might also get a bit crappier if employers know the state is effectively giving th…

The idea of freedom, which is connected with UBI, is essentially the opposite: namely the loss of freedom. It is no longer individual citizens who take care of themselves, but the state. The citizen thus becomes the subject of an increasingly powerful state. And because the state…

The argument goes something like this: technology is moving too fast, displacement is inevitable, and the best we can hope for is a generous safety net, such as Universal Basic Income (UBI), to catch the losers. Anton Korinek and Joseph Stiglitz, in a major new NBER working paper…

The argument is that, today, the technological evolution is destroying so many jobs that there is no longer any other choice than to decouple income from work. This argument is absurd for many reasons, but mainly because productivity nowadays is rising much slower than several de…

I don't believe in the relevance of the universal basic income proposal. [...] Personally, it is a proposal that embodies the idea of the end of work, i.e. it will not be possible any more to ensure full employment for all. However, in a society where there are many social needs …

Make no mistake: modern welfare states leave plenty to be desired. Disability benefits are for many people an unsatisfactory version of a basic income, providing those who will no longer work with enough to get by. But rather than upend society with radical welfare reforms premis…

Well, there’s the fact that a universal basic income could add as much as $2 trillion in annual expenses to the U.S. budget. Then there’s the question of whether such a program might disconnect large swaths of our population from the positive aspects of working for a living—a pot…

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI will need to be, but we must k…

On the left, you could imagine better social services, maybe a universal basic income, extended employment, insurance, other things of that sort.

So although I do not at all like the idea of universal basic income because I don’t think it solves many problems, and I think it creates others, I do like the idea of what some people call universal basic wealth where people are granted the endowment of capital at birth, like ow…

Not universal basic income — [that's] the old construct — but this notion of universal basic capital [...] more challenging than it appears.

Paying people not to work will only increase inequality and rancor. [...] If universal basic income is aimed to improve the objective conditions of the average person in 2050, it has a fair chance of succeeding. But if it is aimed to make people subjectively more satisfied with t…