Why ‘Universal Basic Compute’ Is a Solution to Economic Inequality

Why ‘Universal Basic Compute’ Is a Solution to Economic Inequality

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, who has proposed Universal Basic Compute as a fix for automation-driven global equality. (Village Global/Flickr) Universal Basic Income (UBI) has frequently been discussed as a potential solution to economic inequality in an increasingly automated and AI-driven world. Alternatives like Universal Basic Services or Universal Basic Housing have also been proposed. But what if the answer doesn’t lie in providing financial support, but in granting universal access to the very resource driving this technological transformation?

Enter Universal Basic Compute (UBC) , a concept coined by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

The idea is straightforward – in a post-Artificial General Intelligence […]

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