Paying people in the AI era? He says this won’t trigger inflation... Elon Musk has put forward a very aggressive viewpoint: in the future, to address unemployment caused by AI, the most direct way is for the United States to provide a “Universal High Income.” His logic is simple— the productivity gains brought by AI and robots will far exceed the rate at which the money supply grows. In other words: there will be more and more things, and relatively not as much money— which means it won’t cause inflation. It sounds ideal, but underneath, it’s actually redefining “money” and “value.”