Comment by Andrew Pery

AI Ethics Evangelist at ABBYY, writing on responsible AI and technology policy.
Another possible approach is a guaranteed annual income, funded by companies that benefit most from AI-driven profits to share the gains of automation more fairly. A guaranteed annual income may be augmented by creating an AI dividend fund, which would consist of a nominal “compute levy” on the use of AI applications in commercial settings, applied, for example, to AI agents that replace human labor. The proceeds of the AI dividend fund would be distributed proportionately as direct payments to “give people breathing room to retrain their skills and re-orient their lives.”
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AI Verified The quote directly proposes a dividend fund from AI commercial profits to make direct payments to people. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 52min ago
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AI Verified A compute levy and AI dividend fund distributing direct payments supports a citizens’ dividend from AI profits. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 52min ago

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AI Verified Andrew Pery’s May 7, 2026 TechRadar article contains the stored guaranteed-income and AI-dividend proposal. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 52min ago
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