“It’s 2043. We Need a New American Dream for the A.I. Revolution”

2019 Zhang, Baobao. “It’s 2043. We Need a New American Dream for the A.I. Revolution.” Illus. John Karborn. The New York Times (August 12, 2019). https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/opinion/future-artificial-intelligence-religion.html.One of a series of “Op-Eds From the Future” that began May 27, 2019, and continued regularly through the rest of the year, with most, but not all, with eutopian or dystopian elements.

The Op-Ed proposes that given the unemployment brought about by technology and the fact that the wealth earned is going to already wealthy capitalists, a bill, the Renew American Dreams Act, establishing a negative income tax should be passed. The female author is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Yale University, a research affiliate of the Center for the Governance of .A.I. at the University of Oxford, at a 2019-2020 fellow at the Berman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.