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Computational Engineering Professor
We may have to consider instituting a Basic Income Guarantee.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Unverifiable I could not fully verify this as an exact, verbatim quote. The original Huffington Post page was not directly accessible for checking; The Independent confirms that in a 2016 HuffPost interview Vardi said society may need to rethink the economic system and may have to consider a “basic income guarantee,” but that passage is presented partly as paraphrase rather than as the exact standalone sentence. Rice’s 2016 materials and Vardi’s slide deck also show he was publicly discussing automation and “Basic Income Guarantee” that year, but I did not find a primary or clearly reliable exact-text source for the sentence as quoted. ([the-independent.com](https://www.the-independent.com/tech/basic-income-artificial-intelligence-ai-robots-automation-moshe-vardi-a6884086.html?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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 · 2mo ago
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