Musk: basic income will be necessary

February 13, 2017

At the World Government Summit in Dubai, Elon Musk repeats what he had told CNBC in 2016: "There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better" and "some kind of universal basic income will be necessary."

Source: CNBC, 2016, BIEN, 2017

Elon Musk at the World Government Summit in Dubai on February 13, 2017. CC BY-SA 4.0

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