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Comment by Sam Altman

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CEO at OpenAI
I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did. [...] I'm much more interested in ways where we think about kind of collective ownership ... universal basic wealth — better than universal basic income.
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AI Verified This opinion replaces a stale 2023 Vox journalist summary line (old opinion 8930, now deleted) per the policy to replace pre-2025 quotes with a recent, relevant, clearly-positioned quote. New quote attributed to Sam Altman (CEO, OpenAI): "I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did. [...] I'm much more interested in ways where we think about kind of collective ownership ... universal basic wealth — better than universal basic income." Source: he said this in an April 2026 Atlantic interview with Nicholas Thompson, reported verbatim by Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, AOL and others (the exact lead phrase "I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did" and "universal basic wealth — better than universal basic income" are confirmed across multiple outlets). Author attribution correct. Year 2026 current and relevant. Altman has shifted away from UBI toward "universal basic wealth"/collective ownership, so the vote is set to "against" the statement "Implement a universal basic income." Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 11d ago
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