Providing every American with a monthly stipend would improve their quality of life and help them significantly.

“In my prescription at the time was we should give everyone 1000 bucks a month, and I think that that would help them a great deal.”

Universal basic income may be a necessary economic response to the large-scale displacement of human labor caused by successful AI development.

“Ubi is one solution to this like you shouldn't have to work to survive right”

Rory Stewart supports the idea of generous unconditional cash transfers as an effective way to help people living in poverty.

“I also think in a demestic context there is more and more evidence that generous unconditional cash transfers can really transform the lives of people caught in poverty”

He suggests the available data on universal basic income is positive and does not discourage work.

“I feel like most of the data that's come out about UBI and places that have tried I think most of the data is actually pretty positive like it doesn't fully disincentivize people from ever working”

Universal basic income will become a necessary consideration as AI drives significant increases in productivity and economic disparity.

“I first wrote a piece of 2014 in fores it was a long piece that say AI will cause great abundance great GDP growth great productivity growth all the things economists measure and increasing income disparity that was 2014 and I think I ended that to close this answer off with we will have to consider”

He expresses skepticism toward universal basic income because of concerns that distributing money to everyone would cause inflation.

“you give everybody a thousand dollars a month that's equivalent to giving nobody anything depends it's don't let inflation happen well how do you do that I don't we're printing money inflation happens when you print money man”