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I wonder if the future looks something more like universal basic compute than universal basic income. [...] Everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute, and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research. What you get is not dollars but [...] you own part of the productivity.
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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies support for sharing AI-generated productivity broadly: it says 'Everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute' and 'you own part of the productivity,' which is a proposal to distribute frontier AI’s economic benefits to everyone rather than concentrating them. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote supports broadly sharing AI’s benefits: “Everybody gets a slice of GPT-7’s compute” and “you own part of the productivity,” which backs sharing frontier AI gains with everyone, even if in compute rather than cash. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The LinkedIn post from All-In Podcast contains this excerpt in essentially the same wording and explicitly presents it as Sam Altman’s remarks; the post’s transcript section matches the same passage. Independent episode listings/transcripts for All-In’s "In conversation with Sam Altman" show the remarks in the May 10, 2024 episode, so the stored date is consistent with the original spoken source. I found no reliable evidence that the stored author, content, or source URL need correction. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed The underlying remark is real and attributed to Sam Altman in his May 10, 2024 All-In podcast appearance, and the cited page repeats parts of it. But the submitted text is not verbatim: the source page / Business Insider article gives it in separate fragments, and another transcript-style source of the same appearance includes extra omitted wording such as “Like, I wonder—I wonder …” and “But what you get is not dollars …”. That makes this a cleaned-up composite rather than an exact quote. ([metacast.app](https://metacast.app/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-jason-sacks-and-friedberg/3AEqEKwn/in-conversation-with-sam-altman/SZokp3nj)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Quote from Sam Altman's appearance on the All-In podcast, May 2024. He proposed "universal basic compute" as an evolution of UBI — giving everyone a slice of AI compute they can use, resell, or donate. Verified via Basic Income Canada Network article sourcing the podcast. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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