Labor Relations Radio, E165—UC Berkeley Professor James O'Brien on AI and the Urgency to Consider UBI
Mar 01, 2025•2 hr 17 min
Episode description
James F. O’Brien is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and has written about how the coming AI job apocalypse necessitates the need to look at alternative means of revenue, including taxing AI, to avoid mass societal disruption.
In this episode of Labor Relations Radio, Professor O’Brien joins host Peter List to discuss how fast AI is moving into our society, the “upstream” and “downstream” effect and what they mean to all of us.
Related:
* The impending AI-driven jobless economy: Who will pay taxes?
* The End of Required Work: Universal Basic Income and AI-Driven Prosperity
* Musk predicts future without jobs due to AI and proposes high universal income
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