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Comment by Moshe Vardi

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Computational Engineering Professor
We may have to consider instituting a Basic Income Guarantee. AI Unverifiable source (2016)
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Implement a universal basic income

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AI Unverifiable Quote: "We may have to consider instituting a Basic Income Guarantee." - Moshe Vardi, 2016, attributed to a HuffPost article. Checks performed: - Source URL (huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-moral-imperative-thats-driving-the-robot-revolution...): returns HTTP 403 when fetched. Cannot access original article to verify the exact quote. - Wayback Machine: also blocked (web.archive.org not accessible). - Alternative accessible sources (lifeboat.com blog referencing this quote, futureoflife.org interview, dighum.wien speaker page, Cornell video page): all returned 403 as well. - Web search results corroborate that Moshe Vardi (Rice University, computational engineering) has publicly argued societies may need to consider a basic income guarantee to combat automation-driven job displacement. This aligns with the "for" vote on statement "Implement a universal basic income" (statement_id: 224). The attribution and sentiment are consistent with his well-documented public position. - Year 2016 is older than 2025/2026, and Vardi continues to speak on this topic (Distinguished Colloquium March 2025, Digital Humanism Conference 2025), but I could not retrieve a newer verifiable direct quote to replace this one due to access restrictions. Marking as ai_unverifiable because the primary source URL cannot be fetched to confirm the exact quoted wording, per the task guidance for blocked source URLs. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 8d ago
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