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Mark Zuckerberg: The U.S. Should Learn From This State’s Basic Income Program
An Approach Worth Emulating An excursion is always a learning experience. That was certainly true for Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan when they visited Alaska. The...
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The Next Revolution: How Technological Unemployment Will Rear Its Head
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Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for...
Advances in AI On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction inside a pile of bricks...
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The Cost of Universal Basic Income Is Less Than You Might Think
Imagine a group of five people. They have an income distribution of $10, $20, $30, $50, and $100. Someone gets the BIG idea of everyone putting 40% of their money into a hat, and dividing the result...
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Mark Cuban Says AI Will be The Biggest Disruption to Jobs We’ve Seen in 30 Years
Cuban’s Warning Mark Cuban warned against the potential dangers that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the work force, asserting during a one-to-one question session at OZY Fest on Sunday that:...
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Here’s What You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence and Universal...
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Could We Use Space to Pay for a Universal Basic Income?
How Do you Pay for Everyone? Universal basic income is the idea that every citizen should receive an amount of money from the government to meet their needs, regardless of age, race, gender, or even...
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In this age of technological revolution, how can we reorganize societies so that we can do the things that we want to do? The post Watch: How A.I. Will Deliver Universal Basic Income, Better Jobs, and...
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Slack CEO Voices His Support for Universal Basic Income
The Financial Freedom to Take Risks Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of many famous tech celebrities that believes everyone should have some amount of basic income. Now, one more voice is joining in...
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Richard Branson Just Endorsed Basic Income — Here Are 10 Other Tech Moguls...
It might seem odd for tech entrepreneurs to take an interest in income distribution policy. But an increasing number of high-profile Silicon Valley executives are endorsing universal basic income(UBI),...
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New Report Claims UBI Would Grow the U.S. Economy by $2.5 Trillion
Universal Boom The premise for a universal basic income (UBI) is simple. Every citizen of a country receives a fixed monthly or yearly income from the state. This basic income doesn’t come with any...
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Hillary Clinton Almost Ran For President on a Policy Backed By Universal...
A New Kind of Net Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a system in which every member of society—regardless of their economic situation, age, household size, employment status, and so on—is guaranteed a...
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Could UBI Keep Society From Becoming a “Total Work” Dystopia?
Practical philosopher Andrew Taggart believes UBI is the ideological push we need to question why we’re so obsessed with work. The post Could UBI Keep Society From Becoming a “Total Work” Dystopia?...
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Next Year, a Californian City Will Launch the First Basic Income Experiment...
No Strings Attached The idea of a guaranteed income for all citizens regardless of their social and economic standing is called universal basic income (UBI), and it’s been floating around for...
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Experts Assert All Are Entitled to “Universal Basic Infrastructure”
Universal Basic Infrastructure Universal Basic Income (UBI) isn’t an entirely new concept, but recently experts have suggested that implementing UBI into a national strategy that some are calling...
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Experts May Have a Viable Alternative to Universal Basic Income
At Brain Bar Budapest, a large hall that was plastered in dark and leafy plants struggled to hold a sea of attendees. The crowd gathered to watch Steve Fuller, author of Humanity 2.0 and the Auguste...
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Experts Say Basic Income Could Reach Mainstream Politics in 2018
The Basic Income Debate Though not new, the concept of universal basic income (UBI) — a system in which all people, regardless of occupation, demographic, social standing, education, or any other...
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Half of Americans Want Universal Income, but Expect AI Companies to Pay It
Responding to Displacement Americans are concerned about how growing automation will affect their jobs. There seems to be no limit to what tasks sophisticated robots can perform equal to or better than...
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This Week in Science: Universal Basic Income Will Be Tested in India
Here’s what happened in science the week of January 29. The post This Week in Science: Universal Basic Income Will Be Tested in India appeared first on Futurism.
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Facebook Co-Founder Suggests Taxing the Richest 1% of Americans to Fund UBI
From the Rich, To Everyone Else The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) traces it roots back to late 18th century England, but most people may have been hearing about it because of concerns that...
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