Ep. 19 - Universal Basic Podcast

Consumer ChatGPT use skews to practical help and tutoring, while we use it more for research, brainstorming, content editing, technical support and especially coding.AGI plus UBI could entrench inequality if compute access becomes the key capital, keeping wealthy users ahead and limiting mobility.ASML’s backing of Mistral links Europe’s chipmaking choke point more tightly to a European AI model builder.Meta’s new glasses surface answers in your field of view, winning tech-crowd praise but prompting mixed Dutch reactions about boredom, fear and privacy.Apple’s pushback on the EU’s DMA shows how rules shape what citizens get, with live translation at risk while incumbents defend lucrative defaults.