Comment by Robert Reich

The real question is whether AI's productivity gains (assuming AI delivers them) are widely shared. [...] AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated fairly. AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified Quote attributed to Robert Reich (former Secretary of Labor), year 2026. Source URL (robertreich.substack.com/p/the-bogus-4-day-workweek-that-ai) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but a web search confirmed both fragments verbatim from Reich's February 2026 essay "AI and the Coming Jobless Economy" at that exact URL: "The real question is whether AI's productivity gains (assuming AI delivers them) are widely shared" and "AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated fairly." Confirmed by multiple republications (futurism.com, dnyuz.com, eurasiareview.com). Author attribution correct. Year 2026 current. The [...] elision is valid. Vote alignment correct: statement "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" is voted "for," matching Reich's explicit argument that AI's productivity gains must be widely/fairly shared. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4d ago
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