Musk Calls for 'Universal High Income' Funded by AI, Yang Agrees
Elon Musk proposed universal high income — not basic income — as the inevitable response to AI-driven job displacement, sparking a viral debate and drawing endorsement from Andrew Yang.
Elon Musk waded into the AI-and-jobs discourse on Friday with a specific policy position: the federal government should issue direct payments — what he termed "universal HIGH income" — to offset unemployment caused by AI. As @elonmusk argued, "AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation." The tweet went viral, amplified by accounts like @WatcherGuru.
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