Why Andrew Yang is building instead of waiting for Washington
Andrew Yang warned that automation and AI could disrupt the labor market during his 2020 presidential campaign, promoting ideas like Universal Basic Income that were then considered fringe. Prominent figures such as Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders have since echoed similar concerns. Yang now leads Noble Mobile, a startup that incentivizes reduced phone usage and explores private-sector solutions to policy gaps.
- ▪Yang’s 2020 campaign highlighted the risk of automation concentrating wealth and advocated for Universal Basic Income.
- ▪Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders have recently voiced comparable viewpoints on AI and economic policy.
- ▪Yang’s new venture, Noble Mobile, pays users to limit their phone usage as a way to address the attention economy.
- ▪The discussion about Yang’s approach appears on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, which examines startup roles when government action stalls.
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Loading the player… var playerInstance_31320071 = jwplayer( "jwppp-video-31320071" ); playerInstance_31320071.setup({ playlist: "https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/ktDoRWHu", }) Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing. An entrepreneur at heart, Yang has found a new way to put money back into the hands of the people — one phone bill at a time.
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