Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon debate whether AI and automation represent a coming economic boom or meltdown

Which story gets ir right?

Scenarios for how this might play out

Robots take all the jobs (first article)
- Government pays UBI
- UBI funded by tax on machines

Alternative

AI creates huge opportunity for people to train AI (second article)
- Maybe this is the beginning oh how we merge with the machines
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Universal Basic Robots
- AI is open sourced and made available to anyone who wants to use it
- Computer and internet technology continue to be more widely available
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Universal Basic Abundance
- As we get chummier with the robots, we drive them towards being agents of post-scarcity
- Universal access to the means of producing food and any material goods from raw materials

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