Daniel Kokotajlo on AI

Daniel Kokotajlo

AI Futures Project founder

“If companies are going to be using AIs and robots to take all these jobs, then that means that there needs to be some sort of taxation scheme or something to make sure that people still have a slice of that pie. The pie is going to grow huge, but you still need to actually give people a slice of the pie. And our proposal for how to do that, we call it the Citizens Dividend. Basically, people have shares in a agency that sells permits to the robot companies and to the compute companies and makes profit from selling those permits.”

AI Verified (Jul 13, 2026)

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Daniel Kokotajlo in The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, “OpenAI Whistleblower FINALLY Speaks: ‘AI Has A 70% Chance Of Going Horribly Wrong!’”, July 13, 2026, 1:26:15–1:27:13. Transcript hosted by Wave.

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