Alex Bores

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The Ezra Klein Show · Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

universal basic income or investments in job retraining or just a broader safety net, but do it in ways that automatically scale and adjust and kicked in at the speed of AI.

Universal basic income by itself is insufficient.

And I would love to understand why you think we're not headed to a world of full automation, because it's tough for me to see where that stops once we start on it, but we can come back to that.

There will be a period of transition either way.

I don't think it'll be all at once.

So the idea is not just, oh, yeah, we're all going to have this basic income because you're right, people will be screwed by that.

The idea is to do a number of things simultaneously, which include changing the tax code so that we're actually charging for the use of AI and discounting the use of labor.

And that's a way to protect jobs and slow down the transition itself.

It's investments not just in universal basic income, but in job retraining programs and in structures that help people go into new careers.

Now, granted, they have a really bad track record.

This is my concern.

Really bad track record.

But it doesn't mean you shouldn't still be investing in community colleges and finding ways to improve it as much as possible.

But you're right to just say that, oh, we're just going to give a universal basic income is not enough.

We have to think about other ways of adjusting that transition, which could include when you have people who have a permit or training or a license that takes a number of years to acquire.

Maybe you still require that for the transition for five years or 10 years so people can turn that training into equity.

And that's another way that they have a stake in the AI economy.

We're going to need a lot of policy solutions.

That's why the framework I put out has 43 different ideas in it.

But let's get very specific on this.

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