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Billionaire investor and philanthropist; founder and chairman of the Berggruen Institute
Universal Basic Capital is a better fit for the digital economy of the future. It invites all those who labour for their living to earn value from investment in technology.
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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth
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AI Unverifiable A TwStalker mirror snippet shows @NBerggruen posting the exact text attributed to Nicolas Berggruen, and Berggruen Institute lists his Financial Times op-ed “Universal basic capital would create a fair AI economy” on October 31, 2025. But the exact x.com status page at the stored URL was not text-accessible here, so I could not directly verify that status 1985781756029780147 is the matching post or recover the canonical tweet date from a primary source. ([site.twstalker.com](https://site.twstalker.com/NBerggruen?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
Disputed The wording does appear verbatim, attributed to Nicolas Berggruen, in an indexed mirror of @NBerggruen’s X posts, and Berggruen also shared the linked FT piece on the same topic via LinkedIn. However, the specific X status ID `1985781756029780147` decodes to a creation time of November 4, 2025 (UTC), not 2026, so the quote is authentic but the year in the claim is wrong. ([site.twstalker.com](https://site.twstalker.com/NBerggruen?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 22d ago
AI Verified Checked the quote against the source_url (https://x.com/NBerggruen/status/1985781756029780147). WebFetch returned 403 (X blocks direct fetching), but a targeted web search returned the exact tweet from that URL containing the verbatim text: "Universal Basic Capital is a better fit for the digital economy of the future. It invites all those who labour for their living to earn value from investment in technology. My piece in @FT [link]". The quote is therefore accurate and verbatim. Author attribution is correct — it is Nicolas Berggruen's own X account, where he promotes his FT op-ed on Universal Basic Capital. Year 2026 is current and relevant. The vote "for" correctly aligns with the statement: Berggruen advocates Universal Basic Capital as a way for everyone who labours to share in the value created by technology/AI, which directly supports the claim that frontier AI's economic gains should be shared with every person. Quote is highly relevant and reflects the whole meaning of the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
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