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Comment by Betsey Stevenson

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Labor economist and professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan; former member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Rather than treating AI and data-driven profits as a private windfall, governments should tax the use of data and the rents from highly profitable digital and AI firms, and return that money to people as a regular dividend. You are contributing your data into the system; you get a dividend from that shared resource.
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Betsey Stevenson, quoted in University of Michigan Ford School, “Stevenson: Society must address inevitable shift to AI-driven labor through comprehensive,” January 30, 2026.
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A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits
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AI Verified Stevenson explicitly proposes taxing AI/data profits and returning the revenue to people as a regular dividend, directly supporting an AI-windfall citizens’ dividend. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 45min ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Stevenson advocates returning tax revenue from AI/data profits to people as a regular dividend. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 45min ago

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AI Verified University of Michigan Ford School, Jan. 30, 2026, attributes this exact two-sentence digital-dividend quote to Betsey Stevenson. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 45min ago
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