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Anthropic's UBI proposal as a bribe to surrender humanity
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.@jamespoulos on why Anthropic's UBI-like proposal could become a bribe to surrender your humanity: "Interesting to see a company do this instead of a government, which shakes up some of the preexisting ideological stances on UBI." "You read the sci-fi corpus and you quickly learn that you can be very optimistic within a dystopian setting or very pessimistic in a utopian setting." "One corporation eats everything, no one owns their data, total surveillance state. But you can have an…
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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