Reclaiming UBI
Work and Values in the Age of AI. This series explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way we think about Universal Basic Income (UBI), work, and inequality. As UBI is increasingly touted as a response to the economic impacts of automation and technological change, the podcast unpacks the narratives around UBI, shedding light on whose interests they serve and what they leave out. Bringing together economic analysis, critical perspectives on AI discourse, and philosophical reflections on the meaning of work, the series aims to help listeners engage more thoughtfully with UBI as a broader social and ethical question about how we organize work, value, and human life.
Episodes
Host Joe Williams shares the story that sparked the series: watching his freelance translation work dry up in late 2025 as AI reshaped his industry. In this audio-documentary style podcast, Joe uses this opportunity to ask bigger questions. If automation does hollow our the job market, what happens to the social contracts around work? If work is not only a paycheck, but also a source of identity as it is for many people, what might...
This episode turns a critical eye on the dominant discourse around UBI in the context of AI-driven job disruption, investigating whose interests these narratives actually serve. Talking to experts on UBI policy and AI-elite rhetoric, Joe gets behind the sales pitch, asking whether the UBI we're being offered is a genuinely transformative proposal, or a moral alibi for existing power imbalances? Could it entrench tech-elite power if...
In this episode, Joe brings together the various strands explored so far to formulate a more nuanced argument for UBI beyond the vision of a value-free solution to a purely technical problem. We examine how UBI could advance a transformative environmental, social and human agenda if grounded in deeper ethical and moral debates, guided by progressive values, and embedded in a broader drive to reduce inequality and power imbalances.
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