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President of Estonia since 2006
The rapid replacement of jobs by machines/artifical intelligence will lead to the need for a Universal Basic Income.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
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AI Unverifiable I found a third-party page, YouCongress, that reproduces this exact wording and attributes it to Toomas Hendrik Ilves in 2016, but that page itself labels the item “Unverified” and links to the same Twitter status URL. The official Twitter/X status URL did not yield retrievable tweet text in this search environment, and I could not find an archived or other reliable independent source preserving the verbatim tweet. On that basis, I cannot confirm the quote as authentic and verbatim. ([youcongress.org](https://youcongress.org/p/universal-basic-income)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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