S. Yash Kalash on The first company or companies to devel…

S. Yash Kalash

Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and expert in strategy, public policy, digital technology, and financial services.

If firms own the AGI systems that automate most economic activity, they may provide stipends, dividends or services to users, effectively becoming private welfare institutions.

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S. Yash Kalash, “The Abundance Paradox: Artificial General Intelligence and the End of Scarcity,” Centre for International Governance Innovation, May 21, 2026.

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The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity

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AI Verified The quote directly describes AGI-owning firms automating most economic activity. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Correct answer for: The AGI-ownership scenario supports for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified CIGI article, May 21 2026, contains the exact S. Yash Kalash wording. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits

One vision imagines states stepping in to redistribute AGI-generated value through universal basic income, social dividends or public wealth funds financed by taxes on compute, automation rents or AGI profits.

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