Altman Pitches Intelligence as a Metered Utility; Musk Counters with 'All Jobs Will Be Optional'
Two visions of the AI economy collided this weekend: Altman told BlackRock that intelligence will be sold like electricity, while Musk told X that universal high income will make employment voluntary.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told attendees at a BlackRock summit that intelligence will eventually be "sold to people on a meter, like electricity or water," as reported by @Polymarket. The framing is notable less for its novelty — Altman has long gestured at AI-as-utility — and more for its audience. Pitching intelligence as metered infrastructure to the world's largest asset manager is a signal about how OpenAI envisions monetization at scale: not as a subscription product, but as foundational infrastructure with usage-based pricing.
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