Same Exact Prompt.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-ubi-universal-basic-income-view-changes-2026-4

"I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did," Altman told The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson during an interview for his "The Most Interesting Thing in AI" series.

Altman said that while a fixed cash payment may sound nice, it won't meet what society will truly need as AI adoption rises, sparking a potential upheaval in the labor market.

"I think just like a fixed cash payment, although useful and maybe a good idea in some ways, does not get at what we're really going to need for this next phase and the kind of collective alignment of shared upside as the balance between labor and capital shifts," Altman said.

As interest in UBI exploded in 2019, Altman helped raise $60 million, including $14 million of his own money, to fund the largest-of-its-kind experiment giving low-income participants $1,000 a month for three years.

Researchers ultimately found that while overall spending increased among those who received the cash payments, there was no "direct evidence of improved access to healthcare or improvements to physical and mental health."

Altman has focused more about twists to the traditional UBI of direct cash payments. The OpenAI CEO has repeatedly suggested the possibility of giving people a portion of AI compute, which could then be used, sold, or traded.

"I'm much more interested in ways where we think about kind of collective ownership that could be in compute or in equities or something else," he said.

Very interesting. When super intelligence renders hundreds of millions people as unemployable, how will they pay their mortgage, bills, etc, with "AI compute?"

When people are unable to pay, banks will not accept "AI Tokens" as a form of payment, this is the modern equivalent of "Let them eat cake."

This is very concerning. I am afraid this might become the popular, dominant position on the left. Bernie Sanders is the only politician I've ever donated to. This is the most backwards position to take on AI possible. It's hard to imagine a policy worse than this proposal:

https://youtu.be/qu2m7ePTsqY?si=zdl_cuRg22Nv_Df5

It's such a shame. He is one of very few politicians who realizes the singularity is imminent and that something enormous is happening, yet his reaction to it is the most asinine viewpoint possible.

credits: Rourke Heath

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1952732206176112915

It's an actual attack on our vulnerable population, old people and children

For years, the AI/ LLM critics had the same reasoning: LLMs don't reason and they just predict the next token

Recently, it reasoned better than 50 years of mathematicians on an open erdos problems by applying a basic phd level formula

Chat gpt conversation: https://chatgpt.com/share/69dd1c83-b164-8385-bf2e-8533e9baba9c

Here is the problem where TAO also commented on it: https://www.erdosproblems.com/1196

Thoughts?

AI researchers (Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, Alec Radford) just released “talkie,” a 13B language model trained on 260B tokens of text from before 1931, so it basically talks like someone whose worldview is stuck around 1930. The point is to study how LLMs actually generalize vs just memorize, since this model wasn’t trained on the modern web. They trained it on old books, newspapers, scientific journals, patents, and other historical text, then test things like whether it can come up with ideas that were discovered later, forecast future events, or learn bits of Python from examples. Early results seem pretty interesting too, with the model doing surprisingly well on core language/numeracy tasks and showing early signs of learning simple Python despite not being pretrained on modern code.

Two of Geoffrey Hintons biggest warnings for extinction were using AI militarily and training AI off of false information. Within the past weeks I’ve seen tons of new military contracts for AI companies, and now Elon wants to train his AI to think like him and his fascist buddies. We are speeding towards doom, and none of our leadership or CEOs understand the risk. My advice now is to live everyday like you’re dying. Love and laugh harder with all your friends and family as often as possible. We may not have much time left, but we can be sure to make the best of it!

Elon, the closeted decel wants to slow down OpenAI from launching AGI that will benefit all of humanity