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AI automation could make universal basic income feel coercive
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.@jamespoulos explains why letting AI take over the entire economy could turn UBI into a trap: "It’s always nice to put the money in the collection plate because you want to and you can, rather than because you’re afraid that your neighbors are gonna hate you if you don’t." "Keeping it that way is definitely going to involve keeping certain elements of socioeconomic life distinctively human. It’s one thing to be banning superintelligence or whatever. It’s another thing to let the humans…
Anthropic@AnthropicAI6d ago
We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit. It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion. In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding. In the post below, we share more details about our new fund. https://www.anthropic.com/news/public-benefit-fund
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