Anthropology is committed to doing everything in its power to mitigate the impact that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is already having on the labor market. This American laboratory is one of the most important in the AI industry and, as we explained to you yesterday, it has finalized its proposal by ensuring that it will allocate 5% of your share In public benefit fund, if approved by its shareholders.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has said on several occasions that the increasing penetration of AI will cause half of entry-level office jobs to disappear in less than five years. His thesis defends that AI models will be able to perform these tasks with maximum guarantee, so that it will be more profitable for companies to hand over that responsibility to a language model and distribute it with some of their employees.
Looking at the speed at which AI has evolved over the past six months, Amodei’s five-year forecast is even too conservative. Be that as it may, it is clear that there is a need to address this debate and specify the role of AI laboratories in the impact their models are already having on the labor market. Interestingly, Elon Musk’s approach is very different from the one Dario Amodei puts on the table.
Two answers to the same question: Who should benefit from AI?
The starting point for Elon Musk, who in addition to leading Tesla and SpaceX, runs the xAI AI laboratory, is different. His proposal involves distributing part of the wealth generated by their companies directly to citizens instead of channeling it through a philanthropic fund. In fact, Musk has proposed giving SpaceX shares to American children, so they can benefit from the company’s long-term appreciation.
SpaceX will distribute about $11 billion based on its current valuation
If Musk eventually goes through with his proposal, SpaceX will distribute about $11 billion based on its current valuation, though the actual value of the shares each child will receive will depend Future evolution of the company. Thus, the minors will not receive cash, but rather will participate in SpaceX’s capital whose value may increase or decrease over time.
If we carefully analyze the proposals of Anthropic and Elon Musk, we will realize that they have very different implications. The SpaceX shares that American minors will receive are financial assets whose value depends on the evolution of this company, while the shares that Anthropic plans to distribute to a public benefit fund can be used for specific collective needs. However, both strategies have something very important in common.
And they both address the responsibility of AI laboratories when it comes to distributing the huge concentration of resources that this technology is likely to unleash. However, this allocation of resources should not replace the necessary public policies to address worker displacement. Population inequality or risks arising from the use of increasingly advanced AI systems. Philanthropy is all well and good, but it is reasonable to conclude that these important decisions should not be solely in the hands of AI labs.
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