Elon Musk has proposed a universal income proposal to help unemployed Americans, suggesting that checks issued by the Federal government would be the best solution to unemployment caused by AI. This proposal has been viewed over 68 million times on X, the former Twitter site. Musk argues that AI/robotics will produce goods and services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, thus reducing inflation. He also suggests that a high level of income distributed broadly across society would allow people to participate in an economy increasingly run by machines. However, critics argue that more money in circulation without a corresponding increase in production pushes up inflation. The proposal is controversial as it involves a structural redesign of how prosperity is distributed in a economy where human labor becomes less central to production.