Professor Geoffrey Hinton, regarded as the "godfather of artificial intelligence" says he is “very worried about AI taking lots of mundane jobs". He told BBC Newsnight, that against this backdrop, a benefits reform giving fixed amounts of cash to every citizen would be needed. “I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea,” he said. The concept of a universal basic income amounts to the government paying all individuals a set salary regardless of their means. Until last year, Hinton worked at Google, but left the tech giant so he could talk more freely about the dangers from unregulated AI.
