This week, the team discusses why tech billionaires are seemingly feeling generous all of a sudden, after Anthropic pledged to commit 5 percent of its shares to a public benefit fund, and Elon Musk promised to give a SpaceX share to every child in America without specifying details.
\n\nLeah, are you excited for all the shares in AI companies
\n\nthat you and future generations of America are going to get?
\n\nI mean, I've just been bated breath for this to happen.
\n\nThe idea of tech companies using wealth
\n\nfor public good has been an ongoing conversation
\n\nElon Musk, the richest man in the world,
\n\nfamously is anti-philanthropy, which is very new,
\n\nto be clear, from like tech of even a decade ago
\n\nthat at the very least, you know, you had Bill
\n\nand Melinda Gates Foundation, you had like an outpour
\n\nof support for like the climate corners of the tech industry
\n\nThat's all dried up and I'm not honestly sure
\n\nthat we've spent enough time talking about that.
\n\nof relied on like the positive press
\n\nfrom their forebears literally 15 years ago.
\n\nthat like there's now this whole philanthropic streak of,
\n\nwe're actually that unpopular that we need
\n\nbut…
Original source: https://www.wired.com/