@elonmusk 🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET‼️‼️‼️ Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell: “In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.” “And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.” The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.

Is it crazy to think they’re soft launching market UBI for the jobless future?

BREAKING: Elon Musk says money will become irrelevant and future currency will be measured in power, mass and energy. “I think currency will be measured in fundamental physics metrics like, you know, power, like wattage and tonnage, mass and energy.”

trump accounts becoming a setup for ubi was not on my bingo card... but it might make sense? certainly aligns the incentives between hyperscalers <> the public, and creates some initial structure for allowing everyone to participate in the upside of the most productive assets in an increasingly ai-driven economy

Elon Musk: “There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better. These are not things I wish would happen, they probably will. If my assessment is correct, we need to ask: what are we going to do about it? Some kind of universal basic income is going to be necessary.”

"When a firm automates, it privatizes the savings from a reduced wage bill while socializing the costs of unemployment and community decline." Right now, the public picks up the tab. Professor Alessandro Crimi argues an AI tax could help fund UBI and a stronger safety net.

it sounds like the president is all in on UBI, will probably be a major part of the 2028 election

Universal Basic Income is starting to sound a lot less crazy With Anthropic pledging 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund and Elon Musk talking about giving Americans a stake in SpaceX, the conversation around sharing AI-generated wealth is heating up The idea is simple: if AI eventually replaces millions of jobs while generating trillions in wealth, people could receive regular payments regardless of employment Neither announcement is actually UBI, but it’s interesting how quickly the conversation is shifting If AI ends up doing most of the work, how will everyone else make a living?

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic just put 5% of its shares, nearly $50 billion, toward what could become AI-funded UBI. • The fund is wholly owned by Anthropic, and the board can add 2% more for every 50% rise in Anthropic's value above a set baseline • With existing pledges, including the cofounders' 80% of their equity, about 20% of Anthropic is pledged to the public good, close to $200B at its $965B valuation • It could fund large donations to traditional nonprofits or "direct distributions to specific populations," a give-directly, UBI-style approach • Anthropic already committed $200M to studying AI's impact on jobs and says the fund allows "bolder approaches" @schisofrenia: "We can start doing longitudinal studies, like if you give to a specific population, say, in the US or in an impoverished town in the US or outside of the US, then you can start to do longitudinal studies on how that affects people."

Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

The beginning of "UBI"

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. anthropic.com/news/public-be…

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Anthropic is privately pitching Congress a bill that would limit when the US government can block an AI model. The government could only act if a model risks over $1 billion in damage or killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people, per Politico.

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