San Francisco software company OpenAI spent the last three years quietly helping fund a program that handed out up to $1,000 a month to low-income Americans, one of the largest studies ever conducted on the impact of universal basic income.
Some AI researchers and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have for nearly a decade worried that artificial intelligence technology they are developing could one day be good enough to make many knowledge workers, even coders, obsolete — raising the question of how people would support themselves.
To better understand the ramifications of continuing its work, OpenAI funded an academic study that gave […]
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