Musk and Amodei Converge on Government Checks as AI Job-Loss Fix
About This Episode
Within 48 hours, the two most powerful figures in AI both endorsed direct government payments as the answer to AI unemployment. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a policy essay June 10 warning that mass job displacement may be 'intrinsic' to AI and proposing universal capital accounts, while Elon Musk — on the eve of his record $75 billion SpaceX IPO — wrote that 'Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government' is the best way to deal with AI unemployment.
Our Take
The two most powerful men in AI just agreed your job may not survive — and their fix is a government check; the real question is whether cash even works when the people who own the robots are the ones proposing it.
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