I think he's on the right track with UBI, but for the wrong reason. If robots we're really taking over, we'd see enormous jumps in productivity. Productivity is the lowest it's been in decades.
As to self driving cars, well, there are some very hard obstacles to overcome that have prevented them from getting into the showroom.
@digitalfirehose,
Classical economics are premised upon an exchange of goods and services between humans. Productivity measures output per person. Ai-enabled technologies will no longer be tools that facilitate human output, thereby increasing productivity ... they'll simply replace human beings en masse. Standard econometrics are ill-suited to gauge this paradigm shift.
I invite you to read this article and weigh-in.
https://steemit.com/ai/@quillfire/killing-off-cryptogee-s-fantasy-girlfriend-is-ai-even-possible-in-non-biological-entities