AI Anxiety Won’t Be Eased by Universal Basic Income

This is the third of three columns about how to make the labor market more resilient in the era of AI .

There is a palpable fear among American workers that AI is coming for their jobs. The answer to that fear, as I’ve argued, is to make job loss less scary by building a new unemployment program. An overhaul is long overdue, and it would help not only a vulnerable labor market but also workers whose fears are realized.