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Within 48 hours, the two most powerful figures in AI both endorsed direct government payments as the answer to AI unemployment. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a policy essay June 10 warning that mass job displacement may be 'intrinsic' to AI and proposing universal capital accounts, while Elon Musk — on the eve of his record $75 billion SpaceX IPO — wrote that 'Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government' is the best way to deal with AI unemployment.

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