Tony Atkinson, Research Fellow at Oxford and Professor at the London School of Economics
disagrees
Basic Income
I don’t in fact favour a basic income as such, what I favour is what I call a participation income
Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder of Facebook
agrees
Basic Income
How can we help as many people as possible as much as possible with the resources we have?
Tim Höttges, CEO of Deutsch Telekom
agrees
Basic Income
We have to shield our society. An unconditional simple income can be a basis to lead a decent existence.
James Barrat, Filmmaker, speaker and author
AI will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine
Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate economist based at Columbia University
disagrees
Basic Income
You want your government to think more carefully about targeting programmes that help those in need, rather than universal. That’s a trade-off given the budget constraints on the public sector
Enrique Dans, Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger
agrees
Basic Income
Utopia? Not at all. We need to advance the discussion and make politicians understand that it is the only way forward. And if we don’t move forward, we’re going to end up in a place none of us is going to like.
Rodney A. Brooks, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur
If we are spectacularly lucky we’ll have AI over the next thirty years with the intentionality of a lizard, and robots using that AI will be useful tools. [...] Worrying about AI that will be intentionally evil to us is pure fear mongering
Roger Schank, John Evans Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Psychology and Education, Northwestern University
Machines cannot think. They are not going to think any time soon. They may increasingly do more interesting things, but the idea that we need to worry about them, regulate them, or grant them civil rights, is just plain silly.
Anke Hassel, Sociologist. Professor at the Hertie School of Governance. Director of Hans Böckler Foundation’s WSI
disagrees
Basic Income
The basic income will further divide society and prevent social mobility. Those who, due to their family background, have good prospects for interesting employment and high income will maintain their existing work ethic, engaging in school and study, and maybe taking a sabbatical or two in between. This is a good thing. However, life will become more difficult for young people from parts of societ...
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Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director
disagrees
Brexit
It is bound to be a negative on all fronts. For those that stay, because there are fewer of them, and for those who go, because they lose the benefit of facilitation of exchange.
Molly Crabapple, Artist
agrees
Basic Income
The number one thing that would let more independent artists exists in America is a universal basic income.
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University
There is not the slightest reason to believe in a coming singularity. The fact that you can visualize a future in your imagination is not evidence that it is likely or even possible. Look at domed cities, jet-pack commuting, underwater cities, mile-high buildings, and nuclear-powered automobiles--all staples of futuristic fantasies when I was a child that have never arrived. Sheer processing power... See More
Mark Carney, Bank of England Governor
disagrees
Brexit
Brexit could hit the country's £2.04 trillion economy and prompt some banks to move away from London's global financial powerhouse
Carlo Rovelli, Theoretical Physicist and Author
How close to thinking are the machines we have built, or are going to be built soon? The answer is easy: immensely far. The gap between our best computers and the brain of a child is the gap between a drop of water and the Pacific Ocean. Differences are in performance, structural, functional, and more. Any maundering about how to deal with thinking machines is totally premature to say the least.
Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. Investor at Reddit, Stripe, Change.org, Pinterest and many others
Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO at Facebook
disagrees
Social media threaten democracy
We'll keep working to ensure the integrity of free and fair elections around the world, and to ensure our community is a platform for all ideas and force for good in democracy. The data we have has always shown that our broader impact -- from giving people a voice to enabling candidates to communicate directly to helping millions of people vote -- played a far bigger role in this election [than mi...
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Sanjay Gupta, American neurosurgeon and multiple Emmy®-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN
agrees
Vaccines
That you are 100 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have a serious allergic reaction to the vaccine that protects you against measles is not a matter of opinion. That is also a matter of fact.
Kenneth Gillingham, Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University
agrees
Carbon Tax
Carbon pricing achieves emissions savings by making the carbon content of every decision that you make salient or clear to the person making the decision
Amer Acad Pediatrics, American professional association of pediatricians
agrees
Vaccines
Claims that vaccines are linked to autism, or are unsafe when administered according to the recommended schedule, have been disproven by a robust body of medical literature. Delaying vaccines only leaves a child at risk of disease. Vaccines keep communities healthy, and protect some of the most vulnerable in our society, including the elderly, and children who are too young to be vaccinated or hav...
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Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin (400 companies)
agrees
Basic Income
Policies like these can help people struggling just to survive and allow them to get on their feet, be entrepreneurial and be more creative.
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services,
agrees
Vaccines
One of the best ways to protect your children is to make sure they have all of their vaccinations. Immunizations can save your child’s life and protects others you care about.
Tim Cook, CEO at Apple
We are indebted to all who serve. Discrimination against anyone holds everyone back
Erik Solheim, Executive director of UN Environment
agrees
Carbon Tax
The profit of destroying nature or polluting the planet is nearly always privatized, while the costs of polluting the planet or the cost of destroying ecosystems is nearly always socialized. That cannot continue.
Jeremy Corbyn, British labour party politician
agrees
Women-only train carriages
It is unacceptable that many women and girls adapt their daily lives in order to avoid being harassed on the street, public transport, and in other public places from the park to the supermarket. This could include taking longer routes to work, having self-imposed curfews or avoiding certain means of transport. My intention would be to make public transport safer for everyone from the train platfo...
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UN Foundation, United Nations Foundation supporting the United Nations causes
agrees
Vaccines
This year, 1.7 million children will die from diseases that have all but disappeared in the U.S. Why? Because one in five children around the world does not have access to the life-saving immunizations needed to survive.
Seth Mnookin, Director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing
agrees
Vaccines
Robert Kennedy Jr made his name in the anti-vaccine movement in 2005, when he published a story alleging a massive conspiracy regarding thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that had been removed from all childhood vaccines except for some variations of the flu vaccine in 2001. In his piece, Kennedy completely ignored an Institute of Medicine immunization safety review on thimerosal published t...
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Ellen Clayton, MD, JD, Professor of Pediatrics and Law at Vanderbilt Law School
agrees
Vaccines
The MMR vaccine does not cause autism… The MMR and DTaP do not cause Type 1 diabetes. And the killed flu vaccine does not cause Bell’s palsy, and it does not trigger episodes of asthma.
The BMJ, Weekly peer-reviewed medical journal
agrees
Vaccines
A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an elaborate fraud that has done long-lasting damage to public health. The study's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana
... As concern grows, Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna’s funding outfit is also paying attention, with several recent grants focused on the risks of AI, including one for $5.5 million.
Steve Jobs, co-Founder and former CEO of Apple
Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think
Robert De Niro, American actor, producer, and director
agrees
Vaccines
I take vaccines all the time, and my kids have gotten [vaccinated] but there’s something wrong and its got to be fixed
Dr. Peter J. Hotez, Dean-National School of Tropical Medicine; Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development
agrees
Vaccines
I’m a vaccine scientist. I’m also the father of an adult daughter with autism. Not only is there an abundance of evidence showing that vaccines are safe, there’s not even any plausibility of an association [with autism]
NFID, Non-profit focused on education about infectious diseases
agrees
Vaccines
Vaccines are safe and effective. Vaccines are among the safest medical products available and can prevent the suffering and costs associated with infectious diseases. The potential risks associated with the diseases that vaccines prevent are much greater than the potential risks from the vaccines themselves.
Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development in Canada
agrees
Basic Income
I think it’s the principles behind the idea [of a guaranteed income] that matter. These principles are greater simplicity for the government, greater transparency on the part of families and greater equity for everyone
Eric Fanning, Army secretary at the end of Obama’s term
How does this impact readiness? How many soldiers are not going to be deployable because of medical care that they’re receiving? And RAND’s analysis ― again, before the accession policy was set with the 18-month stability clause ― was that it would be as low as 29 to as high as 129 service members a year that would require medical, surgical treatment for transitioning. I suspect that number’s goi... See More
Jefferey Sachs, American economist
agrees
Carbon Tax
Each region of the world should introduce a tax on CO2 emissions that starts low today and increases gradually and predictably in the future
Schroders, British multinational asset management company
disagrees
Carbon Tax
Total earnings of 12,500 global companies could fall by 20% were the world to limit itself to the 2C temperature rise target agreed in Paris through higher taxes.
Paul Ariès, Political scientist. Editor of Les Zindigné(es). Observatoire International de la gratuité
disagrees
Basic Income
To exit the true/false debate on the universal basic income, let’s defend the free public service! (…) To defend and increase the weight of free goods is to give everybody what they need to live, in an unconditional way but with a revenue largely demonetized, diseconomized. It is therefore to exit from capitalism.
Vincent Cheynet, Journalist. Degrowth activist. Editor-in-chief de La Décroissance magazine.
disagrees
Basic Income
This puerile regression takes multiple forms : for example the desire of receiving without never contributing to the collective effort – the latter being typical of fetuses and infants. This proposition seems of course at first very nice for whoever remembers the principles of justice. Beyond all the criticism of the unconditional income […], its main flaw seem to us within this framework. This i...
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Francesca Rossi, Computer Scientist, Professor at the University of Padova
AI is already more “intelligent” than humans in narrow domains, some of which involve delicate decision making. Humanity is not threatened by them, but many people could be affected by their decisions. [...] Consider automated trading systems. A bad decision in these systems may be (and has been) a financial disaster for many people. That will also be the case for self-driving cars. Some of their ... See More
Kristin Beck, Transgender retired United States Navy SEAL, writer
The money [for transgenders in the army] is negligible, you're talking about .000001% of the military budget.
Dame Julia Goodfellow, Universities UK's President and University of Kent's Vice-Chancellor
disagrees
Brexit
The case for staying in Europe is about ensuring the future prosperity of the UK, it’s about maximising the chances of new discoveries that enhance the society in which we live, it’s about the UK’s standing in the world, it’s about British jobs and it’s about opportunities for British people now and in the future.
David Gorski, Surgical oncologist at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
agrees
Vaccines
The dose makes the poison. Only then will you understand how toxic the myths about vaccines being peddled by antivaccinationists are.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, American radio host, environmental activist, author and attorney specializing in environmental law
disagrees
Vaccines
None of the vaccines have more than a few months of double-blind placebo testing, which will not allow you to spot illnesses like autism that aren’t diagnosed before five years. Second of all, in most vaccines, for example the Gardasil vaccine, they don’t use true placebos.
Donald J. Trump, President of the USA
disagrees
Vaccines
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
Barack Obama, Former President of United States of America
agrees
Climate change is real
Climate change is the greatest long-term threat facing the world, as well as a danger already manifesting itself as droughts, storms, heat waves and flooding.
Diane Coyle, Professor of Economics, University of Manchester. Vice-Chairman BBC Trust. Former advisor to the UK Treasury.
disagrees
Brexit
Many foreign investors would relocate, export contracts would not get renegotiated because of the uncertainty, and the transition costs of unpicking a 40+ year relationship would be extremely high
Pierre Omidyar, Founder at eBay & Omidyar Network
Everyone who takes an oath, puts on a uniform and serves with integrity deserves our gratitude and respect.
Robert J Shiller, Professor of economics at Yale and Nobel laureate
agrees
Robot Tax
A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy to address rising inequality. Revenue could be targeted towards wage insurance, to help people replaced by new technology make the transition to a different career. This would accord with our natural sense of justice, and thus be likely to endure.
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