AI Is Taking Jobs: Could Universal Basic Income Become a Reality?

Every era of seismic technological change has been accompanied by the fear that these will upend livelihoods and disrupt established ways of life.

From the Luddites smashing looms in 19th-century England to autoworkers walking out over the introduction of robots to the factory floor in the 1980s, resistance has flared before either being crushed or subsiding, giving way to the new economies and social orders the technologies ushered in...