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AI, inequality and basic income

If AI is taking all the jobs, who pays us to live? The government or the technologyu companies who have embarked on this path of creative destruction?

Phil happened upon a book to Australian economist Joshua Gans (and Andrew Leigh) called Innovation & Inequality – how to create a future that is more Star Trek than Terminator. He discusses some of the concepts with Steve, including whether companies responsible for the creative destruction of other industries should be made to pay. As Phil puts it, if …

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