Ben Spies-Butcher is co-director of the Australian Basic Income Lab, a research collaboration between Macquarie University, University of Sydney and Australian National University. It’s the defining ...
The titans of AI say they're coming for your job, but UBI will solve everything. Do they have a point? Reading time 12 minutes Three years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman published an essay dubbed “Moore’s ...
Australia essentially did it during COVID. The world's richest man thinks it's inevitable. And a growing body of research suggests it could be the answer to AI shattering long-held high rates of ...
The ABC's finance commentator Alan Kohler has warned governments may be forced to introduce a new tax on artificial intelligence to cope with robots replacing people in the workplace. AI, designed to ...
The concept of universal basic income has a long history. Figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon supported versions of UBI. Now, the US and other countries have experimented with active ...
Universal basic income was once thought politically impossible. Then came Andrew Yang and COVID-19. Basic income programs are now gaining traction, offering payments to struggling families. Many ...