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Watch Live: Will Universal Basic Income Change Our Lives for Good or Bad?
Each year, robots and artificially intelligence systems cause unemployment rates to increase as more and more jobs become automated. And when you stop to take a look, the numbers are harrowing. In...
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Get Ready for Self-Driving Cars to Hit the Road
In February, the California DMV released its annual slate of “disengagement reports” for the 11 companies permitted to test autonomous vehicles. The results, which cover December 2015 to November 2016,...
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Here’s Why Experts Think Universal Basic Income Will Never Work
UBI, A Controversial Concept Basic Income (or Universal Basic Income [UBI] when applied to an entire population), is, according to Basic Income Earth Network, “a periodic cash payment unconditionally...
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Even Children Receive Money in This Startup’s UBI Program
Worth Considering The concept of universal basic income (UBI) has been thrown around a lot lately. The idea itself isn’t new, but recent developments — particularly the advancement of automation that...
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Canada Has Unveiled the Details of Its Highly Anticipated UBI Program
No Strings Attached On Monday, Premier Kathleen Wynne of Canada announced the details of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot, a universal basic income (UBI) program that will begin this spring and run for a...
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Video Reveals That Americans Have a Very Powerful Reaction to Universal Basic...
Standing Ovation For UBI Dutch historian Rutger Bregman gave a TED talk on universal basic income (UBI) in which he explored this loaded question: Why do the poor make such poor decisions? His answer...
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Here’s How We Could Fund a UBI Program in the United States
Raising the Floor You may not recognize his name, but Andy Stern clearly knows a thing or two about working with people. He’s President Emeritus of the fastest-growing union in North America, the...
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There Is a Solution to Our Broken Economy Besides Universal Basic Income
What is UBA? Universal Basic Assets (UBA) have been suggested by the Institute for the Future (IFTF) as a more progressive and fair way to challenging inequality — which, at this point, is staggering....
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Voiced His Support for Universal Basic Income
Meaningful Roles In Society This week Mark Zuckerberg spoke to the latest class of Harvard graduates, offering advice about the future and inspiration to grow on. Among his ideas was the notion that...
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Experts Say AI Has a 50% Chance of Beating All Human Intelligence Within 45...
Timeline For AI’s Ascendance Researcher Katja Grace at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute and a team surveyed 1,634 of the leading artificial intelligence researchers from all over...
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Hawaii Becomes the First State to Pass a Bill in Support of Universal Basic...
Eyes on the Future Innovation and forward-thinking may be Hawaii’s two biggest exports in 2017. Earlier this month, the state earned the distinction of being the first in the U.S. to formally accept...
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Technological Unemployment Is Here. Unconditional Basic Income is the Answer.
In the opening of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, viewers are shown a historic moment in time where primitive man used the first tool. It was a bone, and used like a club, it allowed a physically...
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How Traditional Welfare and Taxes Can Be Reformed to Support Universal Basic...
Some of the most common questions ever asked in regards to the idea of a universal basic income (UBI) are in regards to the details. “How much income? Who gets it? Who pays for it? How is it paid for?...
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UBI — The Basics Imagine a society in which everyone, regardless of economic status, age, household size, and location, was guaranteed a minimum income — a no-strings-attached safety net that was not...
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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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