I'm going to talk about the artificial intelligence conversation. We've been drilling this. I've been hammering it. When you were away, I had Alex Newman on. We talked about this. And artificial intelligence is interesting because it was thrown into our lap after COVID. Looking at COVID as a template, we, you know, a lot of people lost their jobs. It hurt the economy and it isolated us. And we come out of COVID and all of a sudden, artificial intelligence is just thrown at us. It's a foregone conclusion.

And just like COVID, isolated us and we come out of COVID and all of a sudden artificial intelligence is just thrown at us.

It's here. It's a foregone conclusion. And just like COVID, they had this idea of an MRI technology.

Before COVID, people in the medical community were saying, this is kind of risky to go on a population

level. Maybe we should just do this in small sections. But when COVID happened, obviously we

vaccinated the world. Well, another idea is happening. What I'm seeing with artificial intelligence, people are saying

it's here. Let's try this idea because what's happening is they're saying everyone's going to lose their job.

There's going to be no jobs. People are going to have all this free time. What do we do with them?

Let's try universal basic income. This is an idea that's been around for centuries and no one's really tried it on a widespread basis, but now it's coming out of the mouth of what seems like everybody. Take a listen. All right. There's a lot of people that feel completely disenfranchised by the system that's currently in place now that I think is going to be upended by AI.

What to do about mass unemployment? This is going to be a massive social challenge.

There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better.

I'm very worried about AI taking over lots of mundane jobs and that should be a good thing.

It's going to lead to a big increase in productivity, which leads to a big increase in wealth.

And if that wealth was equally distributed, that would be great.

I think ultimately we will have to have some kind of universal basic income.

I don't think we're going to have a choice.

A paycheck every month, even if you do not have a job, it is called universal basic income. I don't think we're going to have a choice. A paycheck every month, even if you do not have a job, it is called universal basic income.

What if you are paid an income each month without having to lift a finger?

We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.

I think a basic minimum earnings for everybody so that there's nobody that is having to sleep on the street.

Guarantee basic income or universal basic income.

A hundred percent thing that's really important.

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