Sam Altman

I think one, it makes them feel like they're moving towards something.

And two, it gives them a sense of community and belonging.

And I feel like as we move into a world where AI removes this, the one thing I hope we don't forget is how many people have tied their complete identities to what they do versus who they are.

And once we take that away, when you don't have a clerk, when you don't have a secretary, when you don't have a switchboard operator, when you don't have an assistant, when you don't have a factory worker, when you don't have all of these things,

You know, we've seen what happens in history oftentimes.

It's like radicalism pops up.

There's a mass backlash.

Like, have you thought about that?

Is there a way you can intercept that before it happens?

How would you describe what our purpose is right now?

I think right now our purpose is it's survival tied to the generation of income in some way, shape, or form because that's how we've been told survival works, right?

You have to make money in order to survive.

But we've seen that there have been pockets in time where that has been redefined.

France has a great example where they had, and I think they still have a version of it, but the artist's fund where they went, we'll pay you as an artist to just make things, just make France look beautiful.

And that was beautiful.

I know you're a fan of UBI, for instance.

Yeah, we shouldn't go before you talk about that.

Well, I don't think people's survival should be tied to their willingness or ability to work.

I think that's like a waste of human potential.

Yeah, I agree with you completely.