Universal basic income: it was one unlikely proposition on which Elon Musk, Marc Benioff, Sam Altman, Chris Hughes, and social justice activists could all agree, at least for a moment. Automation was coming for work, they said, and a safety net would be necessary. A decade on, UBI, as these no-strings-attached cash payments are commonly known, is arguably needed even more, with AI threatening to take over white-collar jobs.