What Salim Ismail has said about Universal basic income
1 quote · 1 episode · Nov 14, 2026
Salim Ismail, Founder of OpenExO and author on exponential organizations, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Universal basic income once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on November 14, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ismail says UBI experiments have been successful but warns civil unrest before UBI is in place would be very bad.
“We've seen 14 major experiments on UBI and they've been pretty staggeringly successful”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live) (Nov 14, 2026) · Listen from 1:45:08
Episodes
Jensen’s Departure, NVIDIA’s succession plan, AI doomer response, and Demis talks RSI | MOONSHOTS #311 (recorded live)Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Nov 14, 2026 · 2 h 2 min
Peter Diamandis, Alex Wissner-Gross, Salim Ismail and Emad Mostaque discuss Jensen Huang's Nvidia resignation, AI takeover warnings, recursive self-improvement, Anthropic's office tools and AI-driven discovery.
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- Zach Bush · 1 quote
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- Regulation of artificial intelligence · 1 quote