Live From New Orleans (with Bob Scopatz)

The SoapBox Lex hits the road!Paul and Eric are live from New Orleans at the 51st Annual Traffic Records Forum, where they're joined by Bob Scopatz for an appropriately chaotic edition of "What Grinds Your Gears?"What starts with a conversation about autonomous vehicles quickly goes everywhere.Should self-driving car companies be required to share crash data? Should manufacturers be protected from lawsuits if autonomous vehicles ultimately make roads safer? What actually makes someone a great musician? Could humans someday routinely live to 150? And if artificial intelligence eliminates huge numbers of jobs, are we eventually going to need Universal Basic Income?That last question turns into the real debate.Would UBI give people freedom and dignity—or risk taking away some of the purpose we derive from work? Would putting more money into the economy simply drive prices higher? Should government assistance come with restrictions, or does trying to police how people spend it create an even bigger problem?And somewhere along the way, Jim Markham and Patrick Dolan wander into the podcast and give us an unexpected bonus edition of "What Grinds Your Gears?"This one goes places.What do you think? If AI eventually eliminates a significant percentage of today's jobs, should the United States adopt some form of Universal Basic Income? Why or why not?