They strongly warned against removing all conditionality or targeting of income support, by implementing a universal basic income. “In short: an affordable basic income would be inadequate, and a basic income that is adequate for all would be unlikely to be affordable,” they agreed. For what it’s worth, academics at Northumbria University have offered some reassurance to supporters of a universal basic income. As Altman bemoaned this year, AI combined with a universal basic income risked creating a new idle class. He told The Atlantic in April: “I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did.”