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Max Kasy

professor of economics, Oxford

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“The cost saving comes from the fact that you don’t have to pay unemployment benefits, or maybe disability benefits or early retirement benefits.”
Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?The Guardian, October 23, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Kasy, who has studied an Austrian job guarantee experiment, explains to The Guardian how such programs can offset the wages they pay.

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    Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?

    In an analysis piece, The Guardian's Nick Romeo reports that a federal job guarantee is gaining attention in the US as a response to possible AI-driven job loss. It describes proposals in Congress, a small Cleveland pilot, and economists' arguments on cost.