What they claim to want to create is a for-profit organization that replaces "most economically valuable work". Putting aside the enormous capital, technical a

What they claim to want to create is a for-profit organization that replaces "most economically valuable work". Putting aside the enormous capital, technical and energetic hurdles - where would the profits come from? Sam's idea seems to be that governments will have to give people basic income, but he is not really an ally to the UBI movement, because in his vision mainly what needs to be bought is access to OpenAI's computer systems. To be honest it is the onus of the venture capital class to prove they are not grifters. Talk is extremely cheap compared to the resources at their disposal. And to be fair most of them do not even claim to be altruists.