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Comment by Song Eon-seok

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Floor leader of South Korea's main opposition People Power Party (PPP); member of the National Assembly
Corporate profits are the result of massive investment, technological innovation and the willingness to take the risk of failure. [...] [Raising the idea of a] "national dividend" based on assumed future earnings is extremely dangerous and irresponsible.
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Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen
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A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits
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Disputed The Korea Times URL opens to a May 12, 2026 article by Nam Hyun-woo, not a page containing this Song Eon-seok quote, and page searches find no match for “Corporate profits are the result of massive investment...” or “dangerous and irresponsible.” Other contemporaneous reports do quote Song on the same controversy, but with materially different wording about a “shocking anti-market” view/mindset, so the supplied text is not verbatim and is mis-sourced. ([koreatimes.co.kr](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260513/chief-policy-staffs-idea-of-national-dividends-using-ai-profit-triggers-concerns)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 12d ago
Disputed I could not verify this as a real verbatim Song Eon-seok quote. The cited Korea Times article is by Nam Hyun-woo, does not mention Song Eon-seok anywhere, and instead quotes unnamed industry officials with different wording. ([koreatimes.co.kr](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20260513/chief-policy-staffs-idea-of-national-dividends-using-ai-profit-triggers-concerns)) Other reliable contemporaneous coverage does quote Song attacking the proposal, but with different language such as calling it a 'shocking anti-market perception' and urging Kim Yong-beom's dismissal, not the supplied wording about 'massive investment, technological innovation' or 'dangerous and irresponsible.' ([en.sedaily.com](https://en.sedaily.com/politics/2026/05/12/kim-yong-beoms-national-dividend-proposal-sparks-opposition)) Because the source URL does not contain the quote and I found only different attributed wording, this quote is likely altered or misattributed. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 14d ago
AI Verified Quote by Song Eon-seok (PPP floor leader). WebFetch of the Korea Times source (and its AMP version) returned HTTP 403, but independent web searches confirmed the exact quote — "Corporate profits are the result of massive investment, technological innovation and the willingness to take the risk of failure" and the "national dividend...is extremely dangerous and irresponsible" wording — as Song's response to Kim Yong-beom's national dividend proposal (May 2026), corroborated by Seoul Economic Daily and other outlets. Author attribution correct, year 2026 current. The quote opposes redistributing AI/corporate profits via a dividend, which aligns with the "against" vote on statement #443 (AI labs contributing equity to a global dividend trust). Verified on positive search evidence. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 19d ago
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