Comment by Daniel Duggan

Britain should apply the same principle to the AI economy. A Citizens’ Ownership Fund would build a portfolio of shares in frontier AI and technology companies. Those investments would generate dividends paid equally to every citizen while the underlying assets remained invested. [...] Where companies benefit from those public foundations, they should make a modest equity contribution to the Citizens’ Ownership Fund. This could be linked to access to national computing infrastructure or, for the largest frontier AI firms, as part of the regulatory framework governing their operation in the UK.