Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income

stuaxo

Yeah billionaires don't want to pay any money to the society that enabled them.

hgoel

He wouldn't want to be accused of actually believing in anything

MattDaEskimo

This makes sense. Initially, the focus was consumer use of AI. People needed to feel safe, they needed to feel part of something better. Now, the focus is enterprises, and they need to know that their tokens aren't going to spike in price from taxes

timoth3y

talk is cheap, so what is he doing today to make that happen? Is he supporting NGOs or politicians focused on making this happen, or is he just musing that it would be nice? (I honestly don't know, but I've only seen the non-committal musing.) There is this ongoing flack in our "billionaire-said-a-thing" news where billionaires imply that their tech will result in huge benefits that will be delivered by someone else once they amass their fortunes. Musk is the most obvious. He publicly proclaims his mission to create technology that ensures we all live better, healthier lives, while routinely violating labor, safety, and environmental laws and insisting his employees work 60-hour weeks with minimal vacation in order to give him a shot at becoming the world’s first trillionaire. I wish the press would push back once in a while.

fallingfrog

Sam Altman is willing to roll the dice on human extinction in order to make a buck. Even though hes already outrageously rich. I feel that I cannot properly voice my feelings about him without being banned from hacker news.

xaxfixho

anyone remember: pushing back the "veil of ignorance" Q-Star Q*

exabrial

I don’t feel bad for believers in UBI; there’s adults that still believe in the Easter Bunny too.

jlawer

> the average person in a post-work future needs to have a genuine ownership stake in the AI compute that's making things happen, not just welfare funded from the profits of the billionaires who own it So nationalise the AI companies? Isn’t that exactly what that would be. I am not opposed to the idea of public ownership, but I think some of the existing investors aren’t going to be happy with that option.

self_awareness

The only people who love basic income is people who want to get it. But if you want to give it? It's an entirely different picture.