Mrs Hurdman (MetroTalk, Thu) says Sir Keir Starmer’s determination to make Britain an AI ‘superpower’ will see people lose their jobs to the technology.
We may need to start reconsidering a Universal Basic Income, paid for by a robot tax or some sort of land tax, as once described by Henry George.
Could introducing a universal basic income help Britain become an AI ‘superpower’?
AI could allow this to happen – but it does mean we have to support those who can no longer work.
In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes said that, by 2030, we’d all be working 15 hours a week.
