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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Andrew Yang: UBI Before UHI, Solving Job Loss, and the Future of Work | #236

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Livestream the Abundance Summit: https://www.abundance360.com/livestream The Moonshots hosts join Andrew Yang to unpack AI's explosive collision with politics - deepfakes weaponizing elections, UBI surging as job-killer abundance hits, and radical fixes like open voting for anyone from Cuban to Robbins - while plotting democracy's entrepreneurial reboot. Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Andrew Yang is the founder of Forward Party and Humanity Forward NGO; he is CEO of Noble Mobile & NYT bestselling author. Peter H. Diamandis, MD, is the Founder of XPRIZE, Singularity University, ZeroG, and A360 Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding      Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy   Your body is incredibly good at hiding disease. Schedule a call with Fountain Life to add healthy decades to your life, and to learn more about their Memberships: www.fountainlife.com/peter  _ Connect with Andrew X Linkedin Instagram Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Salim: X Join Salim's Workshop to build your ExO  Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Substack  Spotify Threads Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on March 4th, 2026 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Given the advances of AI and robotics, we're going to have something called universal high income.

0:05.0

I'm not sure how you get to universal high income without a major...

0:11.0

As dysfunctional as I thought our political system was, it's even worse.

0:17.0

This fourth industrial revolution is the most dramatic thing that's happened to our society in history.

0:21.6

We're here in 2026. I do think the jobs are going to get whisked away.

0:27.6

So you're going to have rampant social unrest if we don't do something quick.

0:31.6

DC is on a multi-decade tape delay. You have, like you said, the rate of change just accelerating all the time. And so what's

0:38.7

gone from an inconvenient tape delay is now a catastrophic one. The disintegration of the social

0:44.3

contract is the most important conversation that we could be having. What's the advice for someone

0:49.5

in college today or someone a junior, senior, in high school. The only career path you can rely on

0:55.2

is entrepreneurship and owning your own future and path, but a lot of people aren't cut out for that.

1:03.4

Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. Everybody, welcome the moonshots. Another episode

1:10.3

of WTF just happened in tech here with my moonshot

1:12.8

mates db2 dr eXO and a wg and here with a friend of the pod a dear friend of mine

1:20.9

andrew yang andrew good morning to you hey peter thanks for having me it's a pleasure to be here

1:26.4

are you in the West Coast?

1:28.7

East Coast. Yeah, so for me, this is a better time than you guys.

1:33.5

Well, everybody else on the East Coast. That's why I'm on the West Coast. No one complained about a 6 a.m. start this morning.

1:41.1

Yeah, we're excited to have this conversation a lot going on.

1:45.0

You know, for us, this is a conversation on typically AI and exponential technologies,

1:51.0

how we get people ready for the future.

1:54.0

And one of the things we're talking about in the future is the changes that are coming

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