Sam Altman

I would expect that the real impact of AI on jobs, in the next few years, to begin to be palpable. Of course we'll find new kinds of jobs.

Capitalism is dependent on a certain balance between labor and capital, and if that gets totally out of whack, then the current system is not going to work.

The AI revolution will generate enough wealth for everyone.

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. [...] [A] fixed cash payment, although useful and maybe a good idea in some ways, does not get at...

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....