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all apparently been designed to distract from the harm AI does.

Ten years ago, in a New Yorker profile, he talked about UBI becoming necessary as AI replaces jobs, but suggested it might have to be as low as only a few thousand dollars a year, because with AI we'd probably have fusion, making power practically free, and that in turn would somehow make food almost free (he's more than a little hazy on agriculture), and people would just get education from their smartphones. He admitted he hadn't calculated housing cost, and maybe doing part of the profile interviews at a Silicon Valley mansion made that harder to calculate.

Then he came up with the idea of everyone getting UBI via crypto payments after first getting their eyeballs scanned by a company he owned, with that scan also becoming their worldwide digital ID.

Then he talked about everyone being given 1 eight-billionth share of the world's compute, which they could sell or use themselves.