{"id":1003609,"date":"2026-04-18T10:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003609"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:20:51","slug":"elon-musk-floats-universal-high-income-to-offset-ai-led-job-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/elon-musk-floats-universal-high-income-to-offset-ai-led-job-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk floats &#8216;universal high income&#8217; to offset AI-led job disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla chief Elon Musk has fuelled the debate on the future of work, proposing \u201cuniversal high income\u201d as a solution to job losses driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X on Friday, Musk argued that rapid advances in AI-led productivity would fundamentally reshape the economy. According to him, AI and robotics will dramatically increase the production of goods and services. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI,\u201d Musk wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla chief Elon Musk has fuelled the debate on the future of work, proposing \u201cuniversal high income\u201d as a solution to job losses driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. In a post on X on Friday, Musk argued that rapid advances in AI-led productivity would fundamentally reshape the economy. According to him, AI and robotics will dramatically increase the production of goods and services. \u201cUniversal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI,\u201d Musk wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}