As Artificial Intelligence makes its way into our lives, many financial institutions are faced with the difficult question “Should AI be embraced?”. While the eagerness to integrate AI into the financial sector has waxed and waned over the past few decades, it now appears that Fintech is ready to dive head-first into AI as a standard for handling customer transactions, financial risk assessment, industry regulatory compliance and reduced institutional costs.
There is no doubt that AI can be invaluable for the financial industry, but it comes at a price. We expect to witness both success stories and tragic failures over the course of the next few years. With any first-generation technology, there are going to be bugs to solve, and a learning curve before intimate industry familiarity with AI is obtained.
AI is not only going to revolutionize the financial industry but become the industry itself.
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In the last decade, over eight countries have formally experimented with UBI. Here are
the top three active experiments worth noting:
Universal basic income (UBI) is a policy in which all citizens of a country regularly
receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government or some other public
institution, in addition to any income received from other means.
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What is universal basic income? Who is experimenting?
Universal basic income (UBI) is a policy in which all citizens of a country regularly receive an unconditional sum of money, either from a government or some other public institution, in addition to any income received from other means.
UBI’s core motivation—to address social ills by giving people “free” money—is certainly not a new idea.
For some perspective, Thomas Paine outlined a plan in his 1797 essay “Agrarian Justice” to create a national fund making payments of 15 pounds sterling to each adult over 21 years old.
Today, experiments with UBI are spreading across the world, from Finland and the Netherlands to Canada and France.
In France, several members of Parliament have supported running an experiment, and the finance minister is open to it.
In the last decade, over eight countries have formally experimented with UBI. Here are the top three active experiments worth noting:
1. Finland: Early next year, the Finnish government will launch an experiment in which a randomly selected group of ~3,000 citizens already on unemployment benefits will begin to receive a monthly basic income of 560 euros (approx. $600). That basic income will replace their existing benefits. The amount is the same as the current guaranteed minimum level of Finnish social security support. The pilot study, running for two years in 2017-2018, aims to assess whether basic income can help reduce poverty, social exclusion and bureaucracy, while increasing the employment rate.
2. Netherlands: The local government in the Dutch city of Utrecht is planning to conduct an experiment that would give a guaranteed monthly income to 250 Dutch citizens currently receiving government benefits. A two-year test period is tentatively set to begin in January of next year, and some citizens of Utrecht and some nearby cities will receive a flat sum of €960 per month (about $1,100). The Utrecht proposal—called “Weten Wat Werkt,” or “Know What Works”—includes six test groups, and the members in each will receive slightly different stipends under slightly different conditions. In addition to the group that will receive €960 per month without any work obligations, there is a group that will be given that, plus an additional €150 at the end of the month if they provide volunteer services, such as doing maintenance work on schoolyards.
3. India: Over 350 million people (about 30% of the population) remain below the poverty line after two decades of high economic growth. In that context, in 2011 India launched two pilots to test the impact of basic income grants, funded by UNICEF, with SEWA as coordinator. In eight villages in Madhya Pradesh, every man, woman, and child was provided with a monthly payment of, initially, 200 rupees for each adult and 100 rupees for each child paid to the mother or guardian; these were later raised to 300 and 150, respectively. They also operated a similar scheme in a tribal village, where for 12 months every adult was paid 300 rupees a month and every child got 150. Another tribal village was used as a comparison. The money was paid individually, initially as cash and after three months into bank or cooperative accounts.
Early stage bur positive results
No work, no less
Less hospitalization
Less injuries
High School graduation rates increased
Essentially, nobody was quitting their jobs.
Early stage bur positive results
No work, no less
Less hospitalization
Less injuries
Graduation rates increased
Essentially, nobody was quitting their jobs.