“I wonder if the future looks something more like Universal Basic Compute than Universal basic income, and everybody gets a slice of GPT7’s compute and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research, but what you get is not dollars but this productivity slice, you own part of the productivity.” - Sam Altman
He basically just told them that he wants to pay them in hopes and prayers. His hopes and prayers.