AI is coming for our jobs! Could universal basic income be the solution?

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But proponents of a universal basic income (UBI) no longer see it as a solution to poverty but as the answer to some of the biggest threats faced by modern workers: wage inequality, job insecurity and the looming possibility of AI-induced job losses.

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