the catalyst of UBI

6 May 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken commentary arguing that a highly profitable AI-related company—citing Worldcoin, OpenAI, and Sam Altman—could catalyze adoption of Universal Basic Income (UBI). The speaker suggests that such a company might generate surplus wealth and provide a case study for UBI as AI traction (including agent GPTs) increases public conversations about guaranteed income.

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The real initiator. The real thing that's going to change the game when it comes to UBI is really a company actually making so much money that they don't know what to do with it. What company could be that company? It seems to be the easiest answer who's related to worldcoin Sam Altman. Right. So not only do they have the financial backing they have the humans, but they also have the case study. Right. Their first line is going to be OpenAI. Obviously they're going to make money out of that. But Sam Altman like yeah, generally speaking I identify his intentions as pretty pure so I don't think he has financial motivations. But yeah, that seems to be the easiest case study. I think the UBI convos, they're going to become bigger and bigger with all the traction that AI is getting and with agent GPTs for example. But still I want to get your opinion on that ubiquitous.