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Comment by Liam Byrne

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UK Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North; writer on AI, economic policy, and public wealth.
Take equity, warrants or other claims on future profits. This is the most direct way of turning an AI boom into public wealth. [...] If taxpayers take equity-like risk, take equity-like returns.
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Liam Byrne, “A Piece of the Machine,” The Radical Centre, August 30, 2026.
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Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen
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