What if artificial intelligence does away with all the jobs?

For a while, it seemed that Universal Basic Income might be the magic solution to the predicted imminent destruction of all our jobs. Great leaps forward in robotics and artificial intelligence are already threatening widespread human redundancy, with the first largescale cull looming for anyone who drives for a living. Companies from General Motors to Google offshoot Waymo are racing to be the first to flood the roads with completely autonomous cars. In Dubai – a city rapidly emerging as a pacemaker for technological change – the emirate's Autonomous Transportation Strategy envisages that a quarter of all journeys in the city will be automated by 2030. Transportation upheaval is just the beginning of the disruption threatened by the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. The world is already experiencing what economists call "job polarization."