Summary:
- The article discusses a study on universal basic income (UBI) being conducted by Sam Altman, the CEO of Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company.
- The study aims to provide a guaranteed basic income (GBI) of $1,000 per month to 3,000 participants in the U.S. for up to 5 years, with the goal of understanding the effects of a UBI program on people's lives and the broader economy.
- The study is being funded by Altman's non-profit organization, which has raised over $180 million to support the research, and it is expected to launch in 2024, making it one of the largest UBI experiments conducted in the United States.