NPR (National Public Radio), a popular and influential news radio network in the US, has broadcasted a short segment about automation and basic income on September 24.

The segment focuses on the interest in UBI among the Silicon Valley tech sector. Guests include basic income supporters Natalie Foster (of Institute of the Future), tech entrepreneur Misha Chellam, and Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes.

Listen and read the transcript here:

Queena Kim, “As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We’ll Need A Guaranteed Basic Income” (September 24, 2016).


Photograph: The fully automated restaurant Eatsa (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Yelp Inc), available as part of Yelp’s Eatsa album Qurazy for Quinoa.