Former OpenAI researcher says a $10,000 monthly UBI will be ‘feasible’ with AI-enabled growth

Would you be interested in a $10,000 monthly check with no strings attached?

That’s a reality that former OpenAI researcher Miles Brundage said could be possible in the age of AI.

“I think that a significantly more generous UBI experiment than has been tried so far (say, $10k/month vs. $1k/month) would show big effects,” he wrote.

Brundage said this would be possible due to the impacts AI will have on the economy.

“In the near-term, I worry a lot about AI disrupting opportunities for people who desperately want work, but I think it’s simultaneously true that humanity should eventually remove the obligation to work for a living and that doing so is one of the strongest arguments for building AI and AGI in the first place,” Brundage wrote.

Brundage said our current systems aren’t prepared to address that reality right now.

“That is not something we’re prepared for politically, culturally, or otherwise, and needs to be part of the policy conversation. A naive shift toward a post-work world risks civilizational stagnation (see: WALL-E), and much more thought and debate about this is needed,” he said.

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