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Comment by Mary Bogle
Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute
Policymakers could classify human knowledge itself as the capital AI utilizes and require AI companies to pay royalties into a trust that issues a universal dividend to human beings. [...] AI companies are training their models on the knowledge of billions of human beings. A national AI permanent fund that pays out a dividend to all citizens could be the next logical step for democratic capitalism in a changing world.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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Checked the quote attributed to Mary Bogle (2026) on the statement "Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a global trust that pays a dividend to every person on Earth" (vote: for). The source_url (urban.org/urban-wire/how-and-why-ai-could-pay-dividend-american-people) returned HTTP 403 and could not be fetched directly, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim and matched it to that exact Urban Institute article (April 2026). Mary Bogle is a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute who works on cash-based social policies, consistent with authorship. Year (2026) current. Vote alignment is correct: Bogle proposes requiring AI companies to pay royalties into a trust that issues a universal dividend to people, directly supporting a "for" vote. Note a scope/mechanism nuance (she frames it as a national AI permanent fund paying citizens, via royalties rather than equity), but the core principle matches. Source URL is the primary source.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 3d ago
replying to Mary Bogle