Why Anthropic Is Giving Away 20% of Its Equity (And Why Everyone's Mad)

Anthropic just pledged 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund, and with its founders' and employees' earlier pledges, roughly 20% of the company is now committed to "the public good." The fund could make "direct distributions to specific populations," and the reason why is more unsettling than the gift: Anthropic expects AI to disrupt a lot of jobs. Today we break down what UBI actually is, how Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and OpenAI got here, how Anthropic's fund works, why David Sacks, Palmer Luckey and Travis Kalanick are skeptical, Elon's plan to give every American kid a SpaceX share, and what a world on AI money could look like. == Timestamps 00:00 Anthropic Gave Away 5% 1:50 What UBI Actually Is 2:22 Altman's Equity Fund 3:22 Dario's Jobs Warning 4:10 How Anthropic's Fund Works 8:40 The Backlash 11:53 Keep the Money? 12:28 Elon's Counteroffer 16:49 Nobody Knows Where This Ends 19:33 Universal High Income 22:09 Final Thoughts #anthropic #ubi #ai #elonmusk #claude == AlphaSpace by Yahoo Finance: A Professional-Grade Investment Platform Built for Everyday Investors. 👉 https://finance.yahoo.com/about/promos/gold/alphaspace/?ncid=100003571