AI risk-seeking factions push for a trillion-dollar UBI solution to potential unemployment, sparking controversy.

PANews reported on May 25th, citing Dossier.today, that AI executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Chris Olah, are pushing for a "preventative universal basic income (UBI)" to address potential mass unemployment caused by AI. The article points out that Amodei described AI as a "general labor substitute" in a lengthy article, Olah stated in a Vatican speech that large-scale replacement of human labor would bring "historical moral responsibility," and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is also pushing for UBI pilot programs. However, the author states that current data does not show AI leading to increased unemployment in related jobs; the US unemployment rate is approximately 4.3%, and UBI pilot results show that recipients work fewer hours, find it difficult to demonstrate entrepreneurship or long-term psychological improvement, and estimate that if $1,000 were distributed monthly to all Americans, the annual cost would be approximately $4 trillion, significantly expanding government fiscal and redistribution efforts.

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AI risk-seeking factions push for a trillion-dollar UBI solution to potential unemployment, sparking controversy.
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