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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From left: legislator Ko Ju-chun (葛如鈞), UBI Taiwan chair Jiakuan Su (蘇嘉冠), and standing director Henry Lee / Li Pinyi (李品逸) recording EP350. Image reproduced from the original BIEN report. A podcast ...

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 ...

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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Democrats and Republicans don’t see eye to eye very often, but they can safely agree on one point: welfare doesn’t work. Liberals are concerned that an ever-shrinking social safety net reaches fewer ...

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.

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 ...