Winston Ma on A nation should fund a citizens' divide…

Winston Ma

Adjunct professor of law at New York University and author on law, finance, and artificial intelligence.

A nation that taxes AI profits only to cut one-off household cheques treats a structural dawn like a sunset industry.

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Winston Ma, “AI needs its own sovereign fund,” fDi Intelligence, July 9, 2026.

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

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AI Verified Ma expressly rejects using AI-profit taxes for one-off household cheques, i.e. a citizens’ dividend funded from AI windfall profits; his stance on the complete proposal is determinable as against. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified Correct answer: against. Ma rejects taxing AI profits to pay one-off household cheques, the proposed citizens’ dividend. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified fDi Intelligence’s July 9, 2026 opinion by Winston Ma contains this sentence verbatim and attributes the article to Ma. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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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

Notably, the structure envisioned by OpenAI is based on this model — equity donations from AI labs pooled into a single unit paying dividends to the American public.

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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