AI and robots might cause mass unemployment

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Elon Musk Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

What to do about mass unemployment? This is going to be a massive social challenge. There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better [than a human]. These are not things that I wish will happen. These are simply things that I think probably will happen.

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Andy Stern Author Raising the Floor; Richman Center, Columbia University; Former President SEIU

A universal basic income is essentially giving every single working-age American a check every month, much like we do with social security for elderly people. It’s an unconditional stipend, as it were. The reason it's necessary is we're now learning through lots of reputable research that technological change is accelerating, and that this process will continue to displace workers and terminate... See More

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Elon Musk Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

Andy Stern Author Raising the Floor; Richman Center, Columbia University; Former President SEIU

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