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Even the guys who went into this with seemingly good intentions have long since sold their souls for the million dollars salaries.
Altman genuinely startd out wanting to help the world, look at him now, feeding the war machine.
And he was one of the better twats in charge, let's not get started on the rest of the ghouls in charge, they don't want UBI, they want control, money and power

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QuickTidal, on 04 March 2026 - 04:10 PM, said:

Azath Vitr (D, on 04 March 2026 - 03:50 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 04 March 2026 - 03:25 PM, said:

I think the most interesting thing about all this is that these corporate capitalist 1%-ers doing all this are so used to thinking short term and not long term that the notion that replacing things with AI will eventually lead to a massive wealth disparity in which the people they NEED to buy and use their products can't anymore because their jobs were usurped by AI and they have no money, will in turn lead to the downfall of those companies and stocks and they can't see it, or don't care...and I'm convinced that most of the older ones don't give a shit because they won't be here anymore, but their kids and anyone under the age of 40 is straight fucking themselves with this pathway...AI is a death cult spiralling and none of these short-sighted fucks is ever going to see it.

No, the long-term plan is to implement some variation on UBI and shift the velocity of money towards further development of AI and new technologies: quantum computing, potential radical advances in biotechnology (including life extension), fusion energy, robotics, space mining and colonization, etc. As well as to applications appealing to the ultra-wealthy---and to those who were able and willing to invest heavily in the AI winners before the transition.

Personally of course I favor using AI to transition to more of a planned, rational economy, with relevant economic production and consumption personalized and optimized for individual health and general human well-being, while still allowing people some agency and choice (or at least illusions thereof, if they can't handle the choice...). With thorough individualized data collection AI has the potential to drastically outperform traditional markets in matching supply to demand.

You have FAR too much faith in billionaires to do the right things...I assure you, they won't.

At least in terms of awareness about these topics it's fair to say they are aware. Sam Altman has written fairly prominently about heavily taxing capital, sharing ownership of the resources generated by AI, and funded studies into universal basic income.

Whether you see that as remotely serious, or just as a cynical co-option of academic ideas as a tool to project that your company totally cares... well let's just say their behaviour has not exactly backed up their talk so far.

(Modern American ideology remains both fascinating and hilarious in the capacity for an influential figure to suggest massive capital taxes and the direct distribution of the ownership of the means of production to citizens... and then to still call that idea "capitalism for everyone" with a straight face).