Comment by Michael Bois

Australia’s data, user base, language, cultural output, scientific infrastructure, and six decades of public research investment together constitute a commons from which every commercial AI operation materially draws. [...] The characteristic Australian policy response to commercial extraction from a commons is not prohibition, but charging at a rate that captures super-normal returns without impeding operation. The Dividend applies this established pattern to a new domain. [...] The Australian AI Dividend [...] channels approximately A$4 billion per month to Australian households, roughly A$200 per adult, every month.