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Robots, Retraining And UBI: How To Solve The Coming Automation Crisis [Automation, Pt. 3] | AJ+


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26 January 2018



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“Rapid development of self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected to aggravate inequality, as wealth goes to those who own the robots. Technologists and politicians are proposing solutions like universal basic income and job retraining to keep job displacement from leading to poverty and homelessness. While many see the coming problems, there is little agreement on how to fund them, and few doubt the degree of expected change.”




John Payne





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