Anthropic commits 5% of shares to 'public benefit' fund

Anthropic commits 5% of shares to 'public benefit' fund(ft.com)

7 points by JumpCrisscross 1 day ago | 4 comments

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143755

verdverm 1 day ago |

What we want is a 'public has a say', not just handouts. Ai impacts all of us across all aspects of life. We deserve waaay more say in all things related to Ai.

FloorEgg 1 day ago | |

> We deserve

What do you mean exactly?

Haven't all other technologies also impacted most people in many areas of their lives? How is AI different?

What exactly are you proposing?

verdverm 18 hours ago | | |

I mean the oligarchy and corruption has gotten out of hand, we the people deserve our voices to be heard, instead of the people with the most money and power deciding everything.

Ai is different because it wields our languages, often more effectively than we do, this is the real danger of Ai

In terms of proposals, Michael Sandel and Daron Acemoglu have some ideas that are worthy of wider discussion.

I'm working on an essay, here is my current reference section

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## References

#### Michael Sandel

- [The Tyranny of Merit - Book](https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313112/the-tyranny-of-merit-...)

- [Why 'Merit' Should Be Rejected](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp5qsEuUOWo)

- [Democracy in Peril: Paths to Civic Renewal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi8icKc9kKw)

- [Are There Things Money Shouldn't Be Able To Buy?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMg9Gjz8PKs)

- [Who Merits to Govern Us?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0UhSo5ZNX8)

- [Does the Winner Truly Deserve Their Success?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03i_Ojbx5do)

#### Daron Acemoglu

- [What Happened To Liberal Democracy - Book](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815318/what-happene...)

- [Building Pro-Worker Artificial Intelligence - Paper](https://www.nber.org/papers/w34854)

- [Conversations with Tyler](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5O1Y-5phEU)

- [Foreign Affairs Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3iK7j36tI4)

- [Nobel Prize 2024 Lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmVL30sS2yU) ([All Laureate Lectures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcuxbYUW8R8))

- [Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4eVoOlIuis)

#### Friends Together

- [Celebrating Daron's Book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKdfNztHq1k)

- [Daron interviews Michael](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZpINmi6C3o)

#### Bonus

- [Opus 23 - Ai does to us what American Cheese did to food](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY)

- [The Students - What the Greeks Would Call Our Government](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=205IdzGJMJs)

- [Simon Johnson - 2024 Nobel Laureate Lecture in Economics (a good history lesson)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwuEt3DqoI)

- [Michael Young - The Rise of Meritocracy](https://archive.org/details/riseofmeritocrac0000youn)

- [EFF Thoughts on Ai Issues](https://www.eff.org/issues/ai)