{"id":182549,"date":"2026-01-29T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says-ai-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:10:09","slug":"universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says-ai-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says-ai-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says | AI (artificial intelligence)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/29\/universal-basic-income-used-cover-ai-job-losses-minister-says\">Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says | AI (artificial intelligence)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/29\/universal-basic-income-used-cover-ai-job-losses-minister-says\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/29\/universal-basic-income-used-cover-ai-job-losses-minister-says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 03:57:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are six key points from the article regarding the potential introduction of a universal basic income in the UK:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Universal Basic Income Discussion<\/strong>: Investment minister Jason Stockwood suggests the UK needs to consider a universal basic income (UBI) to support workers affected by AI-induced job losses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Concessionary Arrangements<\/strong>: The minister indicated there will be changes to society due to the disruption caused by AI, necessitating &#8220;some sort of concessionary arrangement&#8221; for jobs lost immediately.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Labour Insights<\/strong>: Lord Stockwood emphasized the need for a &#8220;lifelong mechanism&#8221; for retraining and a UBI to &#8220;soft-land&#8221; industries adversely impacted by AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Government Policy<\/strong>: UBI is not an official government policy, but Stockwood confirmed that the idea is being discussed within governmental circles.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Job Market Impact<\/strong>: Growing concerns about AI&#8217;s effect on the UK&#8217;s job market are highlighted, with recent research pointing out that the UK is losing more jobs than it is creating due to AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Civil Unrest Warning<\/strong>: Concerns about mass unemployment due to AI have been expressed by various high-profile individuals, including Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need any more detailed information or verification, it is always wise to refer to official sources and recent statements from credible government or industry experts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/de673ed46d19dc117c208edb6f803b2eca7c5ad8\/1020_268_1578_1263\/master\/1578.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=1431031c71c27093dd3511ca51014201","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182551,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182549\/revisions\/182551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}