{"id":21767,"date":"2026-01-29T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:37:43","slug":"universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Stockwood says people in government \u2018definitely\u2019 talking about idea as technology disrupts industries<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/jan\/29\/gold-price-weak-dollar-silver-debasement-trade-markets-business-live-news-updates\"><strong>\u2022 Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK could introduce a universal basic income to protect workers in industries that are being disrupted by AI, the investment minister Jason Stockwood has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBumpy\u201d changes to society caused by the introduction of the technology would mean there would have to be \u201csome sort of concessionary arrangement with jobs that go immediately\u201d, Lord Stockwood said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/jan\/29\/universal-basic-income-used-cover-ai-job-losses-minister-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/de673ed46d19dc117c208edb6f803b2eca7c5ad8\/1020_268_1578_1263\/master\/1578.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=827e39832713e88b3555f2b6c68147f3\" title=\"Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says\" \/>Lord Stockwood says people in government \u2018definitely\u2019 talking about idea as technology disrupts industries<br \/>\n\u2022 Business live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe UK could introduce a universal basic income to protect workers in industries that are being disrupted by AI, the investment minister Jason Stockwood has said.<br \/>\n\u201cBumpy\u201d changes to society caused by the introduction of the technology would mean there would have to be \u201csome sort of concessionary arrangement with jobs that go immediately\u201d, Lord Stockwood said. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Stockwood says people in government \u2018definitely\u2019 talking about idea as technology disrupts industries \u2022 Business live \u2013 latest updates The UK could introduce a universal basic income to protect workers in industries that are being disrupted by AI, the investment minister Jason Stockwood has said. \u201cBumpy\u201d changes to society caused by the introduction of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/universal-basic-income-could-be-used-to-soften-hit-from-ai-job-losses-in-uk-minister-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Universal basic income could be used to soften hit from AI job losses in UK, minister says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}