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Comment by Peter Howitt
Canadian economist; 2025 Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences; Brown University professor; co-developer of Schumpeterian endogenous growth theory
[On proposals to redistribute AI/semiconductor windfall profits to citizens through a national dividend:] AI is a very young technology. We don't know exactly which way it's going to go. We don't know how well the semiconductor producers are going to fare in the future.AI Verified source (2026)
5d ago
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The quote is related to proposals about AI/semiconductor windfall profits and a national dividend, but it only expresses uncertainty about future AI and chip-industry profits. It does not clearly state a position on the full policy claim that a nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 1d ago
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The supplied Korea Times URL resolves to a May 15, 2026 article by Lee Hyo-jin, and line 28 attributes the full submitted passage to Peter Howitt during a press conference in Seoul; the wording matches verbatim, so the quote is authentic as given. ([koreatimes.co.kr](https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/economy/20260515/debate-over-national-ai-dividend-premature-nobel-winning-economist))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 1d ago
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Quote: "[On proposals to redistribute AI/semiconductor windfall profits to citizens through a national dividend:] AI is a very young technology. We don't know exactly which way it's going to go. We don't know how well the semiconductor producers are going to fare in the future." attributed to Peter Howitt (2025 Nobel laureate economist, Brown University), 2026. WebFetch on the koreatimes.co.kr source returned HTTP 403, but a web search confirmed the EXACT verbatim quote in that article "Debate over national AI dividend premature: Nobel-winning economist" (Korea Times, May 2026). Author attribution is correct. Vote alignment is correct: Howitt argues an AI/semiconductor windfall dividend to citizens is "premature" given AI's uncertainty — this is AGAINST the statement that frontier AI labs should be required to contribute equity to a global dividend trust; the recorded vote is "against". The quote concerns a national tax-revenue dividend rather than the exact global-equity-trust mechanism, but it directly expresses skepticism of the core proposal (redistributing AI windfall to citizens via a dividend), so it is on-point. Year 2026 is current. Verified.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 5d ago
replying to Peter Howitt