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• @joshtbvo Josh Mound on x

  This is a perfect example of why companies' and organizations' words are mostly irrelevant. Follow the money to find out what they really value.

• @noahpinion Noah Smith on x

  Yes. OpenAI thinks that almost everyone is going to need to go on welfare, forever. But they're also not big promoters of welfare! That's the thing — if AI creates radical inequality, that will include inequality of power. https://www.noahpinion.blog/ ...

• @segyges SE Gyges on x

  We should be holding AI labs to their mentions of UBI. You'll notice everyone says “we'll have a UBI” but virtually nobody has actually tried to put that into law, set up an organization for disbursing it, et cetera.

• @jdcmedlock James Medlock on x

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• @matthewswspence Matt Spence on x

  The rubber hits the road when it comes time to fund the welfare state these AI companies call for, so it's telling that they have nothing to say about that part.

• @suzamaroo Subi-doo on x

  Just days after a Molotov cocktail was hurled at his San Francisco mansion—and right on the heels of shots fired at his residence—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dropped a 13-page manifesto calling for a 4-day workweek at full pay, a public wealth fund handing out universal basic income,

• @ericlevitz Eric Levitz on x

  Last week, OpenAI argued that the government may need to create a vast new welfare state to counter AI-induced unemployment and inequality. And yet, the company's leaders have ignored - or abetted - attacks on actually existing social programs https://www.vox.com/... [image]

• @keysmashbandit @keysmashbandit on x

  Permanent underclass posting has always been stupid and indicative of a frankly embarrassing failure of imagination, and now it's an existential risk. You idiots should have never done that and I hope it's clear now that you need to stop immediately

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  The problem with OpenAI saying the solution to AI taking all the jobs is to raise taxes on corporations and the rich to pay for benefits for the unemployed is that they literally spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected to do the exact opposite.