One of Silicon Valley's favorite ideas isn't really tech-driven. The universal basic income — "cash aid from the government, no strings attached" — is the tech industry's solution to the anticipated ...

What happens when you give people free money with no strings attached? The question is of enormous importance to America’s safety-net policy, given widespread proposals for a “universal basic income” ...

Anthropic head Dario Amodei says a solution is needed to address AI’s impact on inequality. Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images In an automated world where A.I. machines replace humans in the ...

Musk promises AI-funded penthouses for all, but his "universal high income" vision ignores one stubborn reality: You can’t code more land.

Howard County’s new Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot may be framed as compassionate policy, but it’s part of a troubling pattern that’s taking root across Maryland and the United States. Following ...

Artificial intelligence leaders like OpenAI’s Sam Altman have waxed eloquent about a universal basic income (UBI) as the ...

The largest study into the real-world consequences of giving people an extra $1,000 per month, with no strings attached, has found that those individuals generally worked less, earned less, and ...

Universal basic income (UBI) provides regular payments to all individuals in a community, regardless of their employment ...

There’s a reason that ideas from the progressive ivory tower need to be tested. Often, the grandest theories fall apart when exposed to the rigors of the real world. Consider the case of universal ...