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Comment by Jakub Growiec

Economist and coauthor of the 2026 study “Workers’ Incentives and the Optimal Taxation of AI.”
We argue that policies that are able to broadly distribute rents from capital including compute and robots—such as UBC or UBI financed through capital taxes—are most likely to achieve lasting reductions in inequality in a world with human-aligned transformative AI.
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Jakub Growiec, Klaus Prettner, and Maciej Szkróbka, “Redistributive Policies for the Times of Transformative AI,” arXiv, September 13, 2026. The paper argues that broadly distributing rents from capital—including compute and robots—through universal basic capital or universal basic income financed by capital taxes is most likely to durably reduce inequality in a world with transformative AI.
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A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits
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