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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  Bernie Sanders

  U.S. Senator from Vermont

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  [...] and that is why, just last week, I introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. It would allow the American people, through their g...

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  Jeremy Bearer-Friend

  Professor of Law at George Washington University; tax law scholar focused on AI and equity

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  We propose a tax that would allow the public to own a share of AI itself, not just through future income tax liabilities or new excise taxes, but a proposed ownership structure that requires a one-time tax payment by generative AI firms in the form o...

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  Vinod Khosla

  Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

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  AI will transform economies and need a rethink of capitalism & equity. Labor portion of economy (vs capital) will decline sharply. [...] Take 10% of every corporation and put it in a national pool for the people. Sharing the wealth of AI is a really,...

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  Hamilton Nolan

  Labor journalist; author of the "How Things Work" newsletter and the book "The Hammer"; former writer at Gawker and In These Times

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  This is extremely dangerous. [...] Because, by promoting in the American public the idea that we all have a direct stake in the economic success of these companies, a sovereign wealth fund encourages everyone to think not as citizens, but as investor...

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  Samuel Hammond

  Director of AI Policy and Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation

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  Even if taking partial ownership of frontier AI companies can make sense on paper, in practice it's a recipe for political favoritism and corruption.

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  Ilya Somin

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  Stock is private property, and seizing 50% of the stock value of major firms is a pretty obvious case of confiscation. [...] It does not matter that Sanders proposes to take "only" 50% of the stock, rather than 100%. If the government seizes half you...

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  Jeong Hee-yong

  Secretary-General of South Korea's People Power Party (PPP); member of the National Assembly

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  [The national dividend proposal is] an anti-market idea that goes against market principles and is no different from socialist-style distribution.

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  Dean Baker

  Economist; co-founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

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  An AI sovereign wealth fund is likely to end up being a mechanism to shovel yet more money to Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the rest of the right-wing billionaire gang. [...] The sovereign wealth fund idea is a massive leap in the wrong direction.

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  María Pazos Morán

  Mathematician. Feminist activist and researcher. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales.

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  It took a lot of effort to achieve some basic rights, and now neoliberalism is destroying everything: the education system, health care... By giving money to each citizen you are transferring responsibility from the State to the people, so that they ...

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  Dmytri Kleiner

  Venture Communist. Miscommunications Technologist. Telekommunisten Polemicist. ThoughtWorks Analyst.

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  votes Against and says:

  UBI does not alleviate poverty and turns social necessities into products for profit. To truly address inequality we need adequate social provisioning. If we want to reduce means testing and dependency on capitalist employment, we can do so with capa...

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  Neil Wilson

  Computer Science Consultant. Economics Blogger.

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  Basic Income attempts to pay people under what should probably be called the l’Oréal Principle (“because you’re worth it”). They want to be paid first and then perhaps do something later if they feel like it. That is a complete reversal of the princi...

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  Jorge Riechmann

  Poet, mathematician, philosopher, ecologist and political scientist.

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  Todas las versiones de la RB, tanto las de derecha como las de izquierda: presuponen la perpetuación del capitalismo (de un capitalismo superproductivo, de hecho); llevan a una sociedad dual, en una fase en la que necesitamos reconstruir la cohesión ...

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  Vance Ginn

  Economist, former White House advisor, President of Pelican Institute

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  Artificial intelligence has become the latest excuse for reviving one of the oldest bad ideas in economic policy: a universal basic income. [...] AI will change work. It will not repeal economics. The best response is not fear-driven universal depend...

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  Song Eon-seok

  Floor leader of South Korea's main opposition People Power Party (PPP); member of the National Assembly

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  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 irresponsi...

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  Martín Varsavsky

  Tech entrepreneur and telecommunications investor

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  votes Against and says:

  Esto de querer que el gobierno de USA se quede con el 50% de las empresas de IA es la cosa más delirante que he escuchado en mucho tiempo. Confío mucho más en Anthropic, Grok, OpenAI y Google que en el payaso de Bernie Sanders. Ni China propone algo ...

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  Aldo Giannuli

  Political scientist and Historian.Università degli Studi di Milano

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  votes Against and says:

  Cari amici che sognate il rifiuto del lavoro, questa non è la stessa cosa che la liberazione dal lavoro ed è una cultura di destra e tutt’altro che antagonista al sistema. Voi aspirate a vivere con le briciole che cadono dal banchetto dell’ipercapita...

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  Stuart White

  Political Scientist.University of Oxford.

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  votes Against and says:

  To claim a share of such wealth without being willing to make this contribution is unfairly to free-ride on those citizens who do make the required contribution. If this unfairness is to be avoided, receipt of an equal share of the relevant types of ...

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