{"id":27226,"date":"2026-03-12T23:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=27226"},"modified":"2026-03-14T00:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:46:32","slug":"ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2026\/03\/12\/ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money\/","title":{"rendered":"AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Pivot to AI isn\u2019t a crypto story. But it really is. What if an AI-pivoting crypto bro tried treating AI tokens as &#8230; money? [<a href=\"https:\/\/pivot-to-ai.com\/2026\/03\/12\/ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money\/\"><i>Pivot to AI<\/i><\/a><i>; <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KLERkM2TJbw&#038;list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA\"><i>YouTube<\/i><\/a><i>; <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/pivottoai.libsyn.com\/20260312-ai-companies-try-to-pay-staff-in-ai-tokens-not-money\"><i>podcast<\/i><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I owe my SOUL.md to the company store.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KLERkM2TJbw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I owe my SOUL.md to the company store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3517,2905],"class_list":["post-27226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sam-altman-theo-von-header.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27232,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27226\/revisions\/27232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}