Ellon musk and others ceos are talking everyday about universal basic income because AI but how long it will take?

Reddit r/artificial / 4/28/2026

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  • The article is a Reddit post arguing that even as CEOs discuss universal basic income (UBI) in response to AI, the rollout may take a decade or more.
  • The author believes governments are slow and disorganized, citing personal experience with AI usage that has not yet translated into meaningful labor-market change.
  • They suggest UBI would likely come only after AI first reduces or replaces enough jobs to boost productivity.
  • Based on their experience in call center and banking roles, they do not yet see AI taking their job at the needed scale, partly due to slow organizational adoption.
  • Overall, the post frames UBI timelines as contingent on both technological job displacement and policy execution speed.

In my oppinion it will take 10 or more years. Goverments are slow as hell. I work in a call center in Portugal and they work slow and are very disorganized. Even tho they already use ai. But ai needs to take our job first to have productivity so then they can give us the universal income. I work in a bank call center and I don't see ai taking my job already. Maybe it could but organizations work so slow

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