Many great scientists (Einstein amongst them) get into trouble when they veer into Economics.  Einstein predicted social unrest from massive unemployment due to productivity improvements.  Productivity improvements help people in aggregate.<p>The question here is will a small subset of the world accrue all the benefit from the AI productivity improvement?  One answer is basic income, presumably based on taxation of the rich.  Is another answer some kind of universal ownership scheme of the companies creating the AI?  I&#x27;m not advocating government ownership of business (this rarely ends well) but perhaps some way for the government to give shares in index funds in lieu of basic cash payments? Essentially equity based social security or welfare payments in lieu of some portion of the cash payments.  I haven&#x27;t thought this fully through yet, but it does allow some aspect of shared upside.  (My sense is there will be a lot of shared upside anyway, similar to how we all benefit from free maps and search)