AI is threatening Americans’ jobs. Could guaranteed income provide a safety net?

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AI is threatening Americans’ jobs. Could guaranteed income provide a safety net?

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN (CNN) — Michael Tubbs was born and raised in Stockton, California, roughly a one-hour drive from Silicon Valley, the birthplace of the AI revolution that’s now forecast to forever change the way Americans live and work. But despite coming of age in Big Tech’s backyard, the America that Tubbs grew up in was marked by “scarcity and poverty,” he told CNN. Tubbs, 33, was born to a teenage mother, whom he says he never saw…