What are we going to do for all of the people displaced by robots? From truck drivers to (gasp!) writers, the growing number of professions impacted or even altogether eliminated by automation and artificial intelligence presents a significant potential economic and political challenge. Automation and artificial intelligence are a potential crisis, not an inevitable one. One idea is to find a way to guarantee a minimal standard of living, even in a world where, due to technology, the number of available jobs may be much smaller. One way is to implement a relatively old idea known as the guaranteed basic income.