Free tokens or owned robots: two ways the panel would share AI's gains
On the Moonshots panel, Alex argued that China's AI loyalty perks are the start of "universal basic tokens" — redistributed access to machine intelligence — while another panelist countered that cheaper tokens will mean bigger bills, not free ones. Emad Mostaque pushed past access to ownership, proposing 100 million publicly underwritten robots owned by the people, and Alex said that sounded like communism.
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