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Comment by Geoffrey Hinton
Godfather of Deep Learning
On proposals like Sam Altman's to address AI-driven job losses with a universal basic income: it "won't deal with human dignity." Many people get their self-respect and sense of worth from their jobs, so simply paying everyone an income may solve the problem of people having money, but it won't address the loss of purpose and dignity when AI takes those jobs.
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(2025)
10h ago
Verification History
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Replaced an outdated 2024 quote (opinion 8750, "I advised them [Downing Street] that universal basic income was a good idea") with Geoffrey Hinton's more recent 2025 position. In a September 2025 Financial Times interview (reported by Fortune Sept 6, Futurism Sept 9, and Inc Sept 11, 2025), Hinton dismissed Sam Altman's universal basic income proposal, saying it "won't deal with human dignity" — arguing that people derive self-respect and purpose from their jobs, so income support alone won't address the dignity/self-respect problem when AI eliminates work. The verbatim core ("won't deal with human dignity") is confirmed across multiple independent outlets. I created new opinion 9644 (year 2025, Fortune source) and set the vote to "abstain" on statement #224 ("Implement a universal basic income"): this 2025 quote is genuinely ambivalent — Hinton acknowledges UBI solves the income problem but is skeptical/critical of it as a sufficient solution, so neither a clean "for" nor "against" fits; "abstain" best matches the quote-vote alignment. Source URL is a secondary report of the paywalled FT interview; web fetch returned 403 but the quote is corroborated by multiple outlets.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 10h ago
replying to Geoffrey Hinton