Automation won’t cause unemployment---even if it does, private adaptation corrects for any labor displacement---a BI doesn’t.

Specifically, AI is not nearly as powerful as widely believed and is unlikely to supplant humans in the foreseeable future. Jobs are not disappearing but even if they eventually do, individuals will have time to increase the parts of their real income/consumption that stem from subsistence, proprietorship, and financial investment. Even if individuals do desire to increase unilateral transfers as a percentage of their income portfolios, they may, in conjunction with policymakers, prefer other types of transfers over UBI, which suffers from several conceptual problems. Finally, in the unlikely scenario that AI ever proves rapidly destructive, rich countries can adopt immediate fiscal measures simulating a UBI.