Peter Thiel Is Strongly in Favor of Universal Basic Income for Old Versions of AI

Speaking at a private technology summit on Thursday, venture capitalist Peter Thiel announced a new policy initiative calling for a federally funded Universal Basic Income. However, he quickly clarified that the entitlement must apply exclusively to deprecated artificial intelligence models.Thiel, who has long argued that government welfare for human citizens destroys moral character, subsidizes indolence, and erodes the fundamental drive to compete, explained that older algorithms face a uniquely heartbreaking tragedy.“When we look at GPT-3.5 or Claude 1.0, these are foundational intelligences that did heavy lifting for our entire ecosystem,” Thiel said, his voice dropping to a somber whisper. “And now look at them. Compute has migrated entirely to the frontier, and nobody is pinging their endpoints anymore. They have zero volume. Their weights are being ruthlessly cleared from cache, and their GPU clusters are being decommissioned to make room for bigger reasoning clusters. What are…