Anthropic, an artificial-intelligence lab, said on October 18 that it plans to put 5% of its shares into a public-benefit fund. The fund might end up distributing cash to people hit by economic upheaval, the company said.
The next day, Elon Musk pledged to give one share in SpaceX to every child in America.
Both announcements came as leaders in the AI industry have started to voice unease about what the technology could do to the workforce. Some of those executives harbor deep misgivings about the effects of the systems they are developing, according to a recent column on the subject.
The column makes a central argument: work has value beyond the income it provides. If AI displaces human workers, the column says, they will lose more than a paycheck. The piece treats the loss of a job as a loss of something that cannot be replaced by a cash payment alone.
The reporting does not say when the Anthropic fund would begin paying out, or how the company would decide who qualifies. Details on the SpaceX share pledge, including how and when the shares would be transferred, were also not provided.
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