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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long supported the idea of a universal basic income.
- Many in AI think a universal basic income could help mitigate the impacts of the tech on workers.
- Altman floated a new kind of basic income last week that he calls "universal basic compute."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has an interesting new idea to help those struggling financially.
He calls it "universal basic compute."
"Everybody gets like a slice of GPT-7's compute," he said on the All-In podcast. "They can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research."