If the title is correct, this "god-father of #AI" is just another guy who got things backwards:

#UBI hasn't become necessary NOW, after some tech bro said "ops, I've invented this thing that will destroy jobs, please make UBI to fix my mess".

It's exactly the opposite: UBI has been half necessary, half unavoidable, for decades now, so #AI should prove it's the tool that can make it happen:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the