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‘Humans need universal wage’ as robots ‘take jobs and self-respect,’ expert says

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A top AI boffin has called for humans to be paid a universal basic wage as robots are set to swipe millions of jobs.

Former Google vice president Geoffrey Hinton said the rise of the bots will be “very bad for society”.




He fears armies of workers left jobless by technology will have no chance of sharing in the wealth from the boom in productivity. Hinton said: “I certainly believe in a universal basic income.

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“But I don’t think that’s enough because a lot of people get their self-respect from the jobs they do. If you pay everybody a universal basic income, that solves the problem of them starving and not being able to pay the rent but that doesn’t solve the self-respect problem.”

Geoffrey Hinton has sounded the alarm (file) (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

The expert said he had raised the idea of universal basic income at Downing Street.

He also warned millions of blue-collar and “mid-level intellectual jobs” will be lost to AI.

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