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Comment by Damian Hinds

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UK Conservative Member of Parliament for East Hampshire; former Secretary of State for Education.
Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI will need to be, but we must keep an open mind.
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Damian Hinds, House of Commons debate, “Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy,” July 8, 2026.
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AI Verified Verified against the cited source: the stored wording and attribution to Damian Hinds are supported by https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-07-08/debates/0408904B-DCE4-4DCC-9E58-5F460AB61926/SocietalImpactOfAIGovernmentPolicy. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 46min ago
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