From Cape Town to Seoul, basic income’s third decade became a story about people trying to make an old idea survive contact with real lives. Cash entered villages, researchers debated what it showed, ...

As the power of AI approaches AGI (Artificial General Intelligence – a hypothetical AI that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities across all tasks), leaders of leading AI companies see a need ...

Between 1996 and 2006, a fringe academic network learned to reach activists, cross borders, and change the meaning of its own name. In September 1998, Karl Widerquist arrived at the BIEN Congress in ...

Photo by Pete Alexopoulos on Unsplash Talarico laid out a plan he calls “the New American Dream” to a crowd of about 1,300 in Arlington, built around an AI dividend that would give ordinary people a ...

BIEN entered its fourth decade with a closed bank account. It leaves it with a global definition, a generation of experiments, and a sovereign state paying a recurring income. The distance between ...

UBI was already justified. AI is now creating its own independent reason to act faster. Basic income was always justified because it is a foundation for human flourishing. Whether the economy is ...

In a landmark event at Korea’s National Assembly, Sarath Davala, Chairman of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), declared South Korea a “hot spot” in the global push for basic income. The forum, ...

Photo by William Warby on Unsplash South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism named an basic income for artists among six key tasks in its second-half business report, delivered at a ...

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They’re out! MGI, CGI, and LGI have released data from 25 guaranteed income pilot programs from across the country. One thing is crystal clear: guaranteed income works.

(photo taken at the BIEN Congress 2023 in Seoul, South Korea) Something historical is happening in South Korea now. For Koreans of course, but equally importantly, for the global basic income movement ...