A Basic Income is a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.

Basic Income is proposed by several AI leaders

As the power of AI approaches AGI (Artificial General Intelligence - a hypothetical AI that matches or exceeds human cognitive abilities across all tasks), leaders of leading AI companies see a need for basic income to orovide needed demand as well as political...

AI, UBI, and the Threat of Extinction

Photo by Steve A Johnson on Unsplash Steven Bartlett has interviewed separately three leading experts on artificial intelligence (AI) and a business strategist as part of his podcast series, The Diary of a CEO. These fascinating in-de[th interviews all...

Wages, Work, and Universal Basic Income: Two conceptual articles by Jorg Drescher

Jorge Drescher of Kyiv, Ukraine has written two thought-provoking articles posing conceptual issues related to wages, work, and basic income. The first article "Wage Negotiation -- Observed by a Third Party", raises a number of doubts concerning the process by which...

BIEN’s Treasurer runs Rio Marathon to raise funds for Toronto BIEN Congress

On 7 June 2026, BIEN Treasurer Lindsay Stirton is running the Rio Marathon to raise money for the BIEN Congress Solidarity Fund. The Congress Solidarity Fund exists to help low-income participants attend BIEN’s annual Congress by contributing towards essential costs...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Basic Income (BI)

Beginning with Andrew Yang's proposal for a $1,000 a month "Freedom Dividend" during his Democratic Party primary campaign (2019-2020), Basic Income has become salient as a means to mitigate the social and economic turbulence caused by rapid adoption of robotics and...

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BIEN Congresses

BIEN 2026 Website

The next annual BIEN Congress will occur in Wrocław, Poland on 15-17th July 2027  https://biencongress2027.org/

The theme will be Basic Income and the Spirit of Solidarity: Pathways to Justice and Equality. Call for papers will be up soon.

The last annual BIEN Congress occurred August 19th-22th at the Toronto Metropolitan University.

See pictures from the 24th BIEN CONGRESS in Maricá & Niterói here.


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