Is universal basic income making a comeback? As the artificial intelligence wave floods the marketplace, offering a future out of The Jetsons, doom-and-gloom prognostications about unemployed populations have been making the rounds as well. They have extolled the virtues of handing out free money to offset the consequences of having Tesla’s Optimus, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Veo generate content, cheat on essays, and solve our daily hurdles. But while common sense has dismissed the concept, more research confirms it is a harmful idea that facilitates stagnation.
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