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American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist
Ultimately we need something like a universal basic income. There has to be someway to distribute this kind of technological wealth more fairly to the rest of the world.
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Implement a universal basic income
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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth
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AI Unverifiable The official Sam Harris episode page confirms that *Ask Me Anything #3* was published on February 12, 2016, and that the relevant economics question begins at 00:43:29, so the cited timestamp is in the right section; however, that official source does not provide the quoted text. The only exact wording I found is on YouCongress, which itself labels the quote "Unverifiable" and cites the SoundCloud episode. I also found a 2017 third-party transcript snippet showing Harris discussing AI, automation, and redistributing wealth, but not this exact wording or this 2016 source. On that basis, I can’t confirm the quote as real and verbatim from a reliable source. ([samharris.org](https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/qa/ask-me-anything-3)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL is a SoundCloud audio link (Ask Me Anything #3 at 45m20s) which is inaccessible to AI verification. Could not fetch the source to confirm the exact quote text. However: (1) Sam Harris is well-known for supporting UBI in the context of AI/automation — he has dedicated podcast episodes on UBI (#73 with Charles Murray, #130 with Andrew Yang). (2) The quote's sentiment is consistent with his publicly known views. (3) The vote direction ("for" on "Implement a universal basic income") correctly aligns with the quote's content. (4) Web search did not surface the exact quote text, but the quote appears to be from subscriber-only podcast content. The quote and vote alignment look plausible but the audio source cannot be verified programmatically. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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