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Comment by Chris Eliasmith
AI pioneer
I think these impacts will grow as we build more sophisticated machines able to do ‘mundane’ jobs. My suspicion is that more countries will have to follow Finland’s lead in exploring basic income guarantees for people. In short, my biggest worry about AI is its capacity to amplify the already growing gulf between rich and poor.
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(2016)
2y ago
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Quote: Chris Eliasmith on universal basic income, attributed to a 2016 Futurism interview.
Checks performed:
- Tried WebFetch on the source_url (futurism.com), the Medium mirror, the LinkedIn republish, and a Wayback Machine snapshot. All returned 403 / blocked, so I could not directly confirm the quote on the source page.
- WebSearch for the distinctive phrase "my biggest worry about AI is its capacity to amplify ... Eliasmith" returned the same Futurism/Medium/LinkedIn pages and snippet text that matches the quote, confirming the attribution to Chris Eliasmith from that interview indirectly.
- Vote alignment is correct: the quote supports following Finland in exploring basic income guarantees, and the vote on "Implement a universal basic income" is "for".
- Year is 2016 (older than 2025/2026). I searched for a more recent UBI/AI quote from Chris Eliasmith specifically (2025-2026) but could not find one, so I left the existing quote in place.
Marking as ai_unverifiable because the source URL itself is inaccessible to me even though indirect search evidence supports the attribution.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1d ago
replying to Chris Eliasmith