Daniel Kokotajlo
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Futures Project founder
Basically—one thing you could do is a UBI, where you tax the companies and redistribute the money. We think a citizens’ dividend is slightly better. It’s a different thing—it’s more like people having stock in the companies, where they own something, rather than just getting payments—which we think is an improvement. And then, also, it’s not a tax on the companies, exactly—it’s a sort of cap-and-trade thing, where, for chips and robots, you need a permit to produce them. And the permits are sold by special government—specially set-up government institutions—and then people have stock in those institutions, basically.AI Verified (Aug 25, 2026)
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