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Comment by Alex Bores
New York State Assemblymember
At its core, the AI Dividend is simple: if AI dramatically increases productivity and concentrates wealth, the American people have a stake in those gains. [...] You don't take out fire insurance because you expect your house to burn down — you have insurance in case something goes awry. Here we have, for the first time, a technology where the makers of the technology are explicitly saying that their goal is to replace all human labor.Disputed source (2026)
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Disputed: the cited Axios article contains the last two sentences as direct interview quotes from Alex Bores, but the opening sentence is separately attributed to "a memo on the policy," not to Bores speaking; that same sentence appears in Bores’ campaign policy PDF. Because the submission stitches memo text and a separate interview quote into one continuous quote, I cannot verify it as a single verbatim Alex Bores quote from the cited source. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/04/20/alex-bores-ai-dividend-plan-wealth))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
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Verified via web search (Axios returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch). Multiple sources (Axios, Slashdot, Breitbart, Yahoo Finance, Bores' own policy PDF) confirm all three quoted passages from Alex Bores's "AI Dividend" rollout on 2026-04-20: the core framing "if AI dramatically increases productivity and concentrates wealth, the American people have a stake in those gains," the fire-insurance analogy verbatim, and "Here we have, for the first time, a technology where the makers of the technology are explicitly saying that their goal is to replace all human labor." Author attribution and year (2026) are correct, and source_url is the primary source. The "for" vote on "economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" aligns with his stance on sharing AI-concentrated wealth via a dividend; note his plan is national in scope (American people) rather than a literal global trust.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Alex Bores