Altman: AI's abundance era is reshaping capitalism and worker power
TL;DR
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a BlackRock summit that AI is reshaping capitalism by shifting power from workers to owners as tech enables abundant, affordable intelligence, a move critics call AI-washing since OpenAI offers little in the way of worker protections. He frames AI’s spread as a goal to flood the world with intelligence and make it cheap to use, but this raises questions about who benefits when labor’s bargaining power is undermined.
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