An AI Capability Threshold for Rent-Funded Universal Basic Income in an AI-Automated Economy

Aran Nayebi

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Abstract: We derive the first closed-form condition under which artificial intelligence (AI) capital profits could sustainably finance a universal basic income (UBI) without additional taxes or new job creation. In a Solow-Zeira economy characterized by a continuum of automatable tasks, a constant net saving rate $s$, and task-elasticity $\sigma

Date: 2025-05
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