{"id":238051,"date":"2026-05-30T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sam-altman-falls-out-of-love-with-universal-basic-income"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:07:18","slug":"sam-altman-falls-out-of-love-with-universal-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/sam-altman-falls-out-of-love-with-universal-basic-income","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sam-altman-falls-out-of-love-with-universal-basic-income.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once spent millions to fund a massive study of UBI. In the age of AI, cash payments aren\u2019t the best answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once spent millions to fund a massive study of UBI. In the age of AI, cash payments aren\u2019t the best answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}