The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth

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Prevent wealth concentration

Supporters argue that AI gains tend to flow to capital holders, employers, first movers, and other already-advantaged beneficiaries rather than reaching workers automatically. On this view, sharing gains broadly is necessary to stop AI from becoming another engine of inequality and to prevent wealth from remaining concentrated in a small group.

The AI economy should not become another engine for inequality. The wealthiest beneficiaries of AI should pay their fair share just like working people do.

Edward J. Markey · Jul 10, 2026 · full quote
To avoid deepening social fractures, it will need to find ways to distribute the benefits of AI more broadly rather than allowing them to remain concentrated in the hands of a small group of first movers and tech billionaires.

Kenneth Rogoff · Jun 2, 2026 · full quote
Because the gains from AI tend to accrue to capital and do not reach all workers automatically, labor market, education, social protection, and fiscal policies will be critical to ensuring gains translate into higher living standards and better jobs.

World Bank · Jun 22, 2026 · full quote
Society would have to rethink the social safety net to ensure that the gains from unprecedented economic growth are shared rather than concentrated among a small group of capital holders and AI superstars.

Michael S. Barr · Feb 17, 2026 · full quote
Ensuring that no one is left behind involves more than ensuring job-ful growth. It requires a commitment to sharing the rewards of AI-driven productivity. [...] Presently, employers are the default beneficiaries. They benefit from more output from the same headcount, or the same …

Eileen Chong · May 6, 2026 · full quote

Worker-centered transition

Many quotes focus on labor disruption, warning that AI could displace jobs, weaken bargaining power, or reduce demand for human work. They argue that reskilling, job mobility, worker protections, better wages, just-transition policies, and safety nets are needed so AI productivity also becomes a human gain.

AI is already changing how people work, and it's bringing real risks: massive job losses, increased workplace surveillance, and weaker bargaining power for workers. We need to get ahead of it. That means investing in workforce training, strengthening worker protections, and makin…

Brian Schatz · Feb 27, 2026 · full quote
AI’s uneven impact on workers is another important consideration. While innovation drives growth, it risks displacing jobs and depressing wages for certain segments of the workforce. Policies should focus on lowering barriers to adoption, helping workers to invest in the right sk…

International Monetary Fund · Jan 19, 2026 · full quote
AI capacity building should extend across the entire public sector, while reskilling initiatives and just transition policies help ensure that AI enhances human capabilities and that its economic benefits are shared equitably.

Government of Egypt · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
But if that happens, it's likely that AI will have acted as a general substitute for labor: these gains could come with a reduction in demand for human work that is difficult or impossible for many workers to absorb. In this world, the central economic challenge would no longer b…

Anthropic · 2026 · full quote
AI must be integrated into the workplace in a negotiated way, with better wages, strong worker protections and quality jobs so that workers get their fair share, and with the human-in-control principle.

Esther Lynch · Mar 9, 2026 · full quote
The findings suggest that workers who lose out from AI advancement could benefit from having a safety net that helps them share consumption gains with AI-using workers.

Oksana Leukhina · Jan 13, 2026 · full quote

Global inclusion and capacity

A major line of argument is that frontier AI is concentrated in a handful of wealthy countries and organizations even though all countries contribute through data, labor, markets, minerals, or cloud capacity. Proponents say developing and smaller nations should build capabilities, help shape the rules, and share fairly in the value created rather than remain dependent consumers.

Every country is involved in the AI value chain, whether through data, critical minerals, labour, markets, compute, or cloud capacity. And that means that all should have a meaningful stake in shaping and benefiting from AI. Otherwise, AI will deepen inequalities rather than help…

Volker Türk · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
The benefits of AI must reach communities everywhere, not only those already closest to capital, computing power, and decision-making. Those furthest from today's centres of power must be co-authors of this future, with a meaningful role in building the infrastructure, shaping th…

Halla Tómasdóttir · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
We cannot allow the digital divide to harden into an AI divide. Therefore, we strongly support the Secretary-General's call for a global fund for AI to build skills, data, and affordable computing power everywhere.

Tatenda Mavetera · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Foundational models are built and controlled elsewhere. Left to drift, the benefits concentrate where capability already sits, while the risks of job displacement, biased systems, extracting of data for value generation, and new dependencies fall on those least able to absorb the…

Government of Pakistan · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
The inaugural session of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance seeks to ensure that governance reflects the priorities of all nations, not just the most technologically advanced, and that the benefits of AI are shared by all.

UNESCO · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Smaller and developing nations must not be constrained to being just consumers of AI, but be empowered contributors to the knowledge, language, and cultural perspectives upon which future AI systems are built.

Government of Sri Lanka · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote

Universal stake in AI

Some supporters make a stronger ownership claim, arguing that every person has a legitimate stake in AI-created value because transformative systems draw on shared infrastructure, public data, and collective human knowledge. From this perspective, broad sharing may require direct mechanisms such as recurring payouts, public capital pools, ownership stakes, or universal access to compute.

[A global dividend system would] deliver recurring payouts to individuals, grounded in the principle that every person holds a legitimate claim to a share of the value created by transformative technologies [...] recognizing that modern AI systems are built atop shared infrastruc…

Anna Yelizarova · 2025 · full quote
If the wealth generated by artificial intelligence will accrue only to the owners of AI companies, then the way to avoid catastrophic levels of inequality is to give everyone an ownership stake in those companies.

Rogé Karma · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote
I wonder if the future looks something more like universal basic compute than universal basic income. [...] Everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute, and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research. What you get is not dollars b…

Sam Altman · May 10, 2024 · full quote

Global development gains

Another argument stresses the upside: AI could improve medicine, agriculture, education, public services, productivity, and catch-up growth if its benefits are made available across nations. In this view, sharing gains is not only about redistribution but about treating AI as a global public good that can advance sustainable development and prosperity for all.

The benefits of artificial intelligence in medicine, in science, in agriculture and in education shall be made available across all nations, through mechanisms modelled on the multilateral fund that allowed developing countries to join the Montreal Protocol as partners rather tha…

The Global AI Accord · Jul 5, 2026 · full quote
Indonesia's President Prabowo believes that AI governance must go beyond managing risk. It must also enable countries, particularly developing countries, to harness AI for sustainable development improve public services, and social inclusion.

Government of Indonesia · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Leveraging the convening power of the UN, we must start transforming artificial intelligence into a global public good that benefits all of humanity while ensuring safety by design and meaningful human oversight.

Rein Tammsaar · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industrial revolution, and really doing…

Satya Nadella · 2023 · full quote

Middle ground

Distribution is policy-dependent

Several quotes present inclusive distribution as conditional rather than automatic: AI could support broad prosperity if countries and institutions deliberately expand access, build trust, manage risks, and design policy for equitable impact. Without that deliberate effort, they warn, AI may instead amplify inequality and concentrate power.

If societies act deliberately, building inclusive frameworks and sharing benefits widely, AGI could underpin the most prosperous era in human history. If not, it may amplify inequality, destabilize democracies and concentrate power beyond public control.

S. Yash Kalash · May 21, 2026 · full quote
But that will only happen if we see countries working together to build trust, to manage risks, and also to ensure that the benefits of AI are shared widely.

Seema Malhotra · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
We must ensure that its benefits are accessible to all, equitable in terms of impact, and aligned with human well-being.

Amandeep Singh Gill · Jun 2026 · full quote
The Institute will assess both opportunities and risks under a range of scenarios. It will examine how AI is affecting productivity, labour markets, and growth. A key consideration will be whether AI gains are broadly shared across regions, income groups, sectors and generations …

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Jun 2026 · full quote

Insights

In the provided quotes, support for broad sharing appears across governments, international organizations, labor representatives, economists, companies, and AI labs.
Many speakers frame the issue globally, arguing that countries outside today's main centers of capital and compute should help shape AI and share in its value.
A recurring theme is that markets alone will not reliably turn AI productivity into worker gains, so public policy is presented as necessary.
The quotes use different meanings of sharing, ranging from access to skills, infrastructure, and public services to direct ownership, dividends, or compute allotments.
Several quotes link equitable distribution to trusted governance, risk management, and human oversight rather than treating economic sharing as separate from responsible AI governance.

Across the provided quotes, the principle that frontier AI's gains should be shared broadly is treated less as a disputed ideal than as a policy design challenge. The main differences concern mechanism and scope: some emphasize global governance and capacity building, others focus on worker protections and social policy, and others call for direct ownership or dividend-style models. This set does not contain a developed case against the underlying principle, so the debate here centers mainly on how inclusive distribution should be achieved.

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Lu Chuanying
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AI should not become a tool reserved for a few countries but a shared asset benefiting people of all countries.
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2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance
Intergovernmental conference on global AI governance held in Shanghai in July 2026.

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[E]nabling Global South countries to benefit equally from AI development, advancing the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and ensuring AI truly benefits all humanity.
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We should ensure that AI is an important driver for shared prosperity and common security.
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Together, through strengthened cooperation and shared commitment, we can ensure that artificial intelligence becomes a powerful tool for sustainable development, innovation, and prosperity for all.
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We also believe that international cooperation through knowledge exchange, public-private partnership, and the North-South, South-South, and Triangle cooperation is essential to ensure that no country is left behind in shaping or benefiting from AI.
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We look forward to deepening cooperation with Pakistan, Tajikistan, and all partners in this room so that no country and no young person is left behind in this AI-driven economy.
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Kazakhstan remains committed to strengthening international cooperation, sharing its experience, and working with all partners to ensure that AI becomes a driver of inclusive growth, sustainable development, and shared prosperity.
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Asim Iftikhar Ahmed
Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations.

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So I think equitable development, equitable access is very important.
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Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan
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Therefore, we believe that the true measure of artificial intelligence will not be the sophistication of its algorithms, but the lives it improves. Not the wealth it generates for a few, but the opportunities it creates for many.
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Hashim Saeed
Google go-to-market lead who spoke on AI inclusion and development at a UN high-level discussion.

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So, to prevent this, we have to treat AI not as a tool for automation, but as a bridge for opportunity, inclusion, and growth.
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Jennifer Lui
AI Trust and Safety Advisor at the United Nations Development Programme.

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It really is about how do we make sure the frontier benefits actually reach us?
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It sets out a confident direction for how we must calibrate national policy to ensure the benefits of this transformational technology are shared widely and equitably – an ambition Microsoft strongly supports.
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Edward J. Markey
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The AI economy should not become another engine for inequality. The wealthiest beneficiaries of AI should pay their fair share just like working people do.
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Neil Duncan-Jordan
UK Member of Parliament for Poole.

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One of the biggest challenges of AI is to ensure that everyone gets a fair share of the gains.
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Anna Gelderd
UK Member of Parliament for South East Cornwall.

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The challenge is how we ensure that these changes work for people, strengthen our communities and deliver benefits that are shared across the country and internationally.
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The future of AI must be built on equity, cooperation, and shared prosperity.
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UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific and Minister for Equalities.

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But that will only happen if we see countries working together to build trust, to manage risks, and also to ensure that the benefits of AI are shared widely.
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Government of Namibia
National government of Namibia, represented at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance by its Minister of Information and Communications Technology.

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Without inclusive digital foundations, AI risks becoming a tool for the few, not a catalyst for shared prosperity.
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As a kingdom committed to innovation and international cooperation, Bahrain believes that the future of AI governance should be built on cooperation, interoperability, capacity building, and inclusivity. We stand ready to work with partners to advanc...
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We cannot allow the digital divide to harden into an AI divide. Therefore, we strongly support the Secretary-General's call for a global fund for AI to build skills, data, and affordable computing power everywhere.
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We would like to welcome the accent that has been made on capacity building for AI, which is an essential factor in reducing the AI and digital divide, and which would allow all countries, not only developing countries, to benefit from AI and its glo...
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The benefits of AI must reach communities everywhere, not only those already closest to capital, computing power, and decision-making. Those furthest from today's centres of power must be co-authors of this future, with a meaningful role in building ...
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Roberto Viola
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The EU comes to this dialogue seeking something durable: a shared commitment to the principle that technology and its benefits must serve all of humanity and the planet, leaving no one behind.
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Indonesia's President Prabowo believes that AI governance must go beyond managing risk. It must also enable countries, particularly developing countries, to harness AI for sustainable development improve public services, and social inclusion.
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We are seeking knowledge to be converted into the creation of jobs. Before labor conversion, governance would require that adequate distribution takes place.
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Foundational models are built and controlled elsewhere. Left to drift, the benefits concentrate where capability already sits, while the risks of job displacement, biased systems, extracting of data for value generation, and new dependencies fall on ...
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Government of Cote d'Ivoire
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AI must not be the privilege for some economies and platforms. It must be a lever for shared progress, shared ethically.
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Government of Russia
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We're working with other countries, and this kind of common initiatives gives access to instruments, to open models, and to shape common standards. Colleagues, this reduces the risk that AI will be the privilege of a small circle of people.
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Singapore's Minister for Digital Development and Information; launched the world's first agentic AI governance framework

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Singapore will remain committed to doing our part so that the benefits of AI can be enjoyed by the many and not the few.
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UN human rights chief

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Every country is involved in the AI value chain, whether through data, critical minerals, labour, markets, compute, or cloud capacity. And that means that all should have a meaningful stake in shaping and benefiting from AI. Otherwise, AI will deepen...
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Loretta Hébert-Girardet
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Bridging AI divides is more than simply expanding access to AI. It is about strengthening the conditions that enable countries, communities, and stakeholders not only to use AI, but also to develop, adapt, evaluate, and govern the technology in ways ...
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Robert Opp
Chief Digital Officer and Director of the Digital AI and Innovation Team at the United Nations Development Programme.

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We in particular see a divide around access, which is affordable and available access to compute power, capacity, and skills, other things.
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Government of France
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[O]pen-source models [are needed] to democratize access to this new energy.
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Government of Spain
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AI must be a majority tool, not an exclusive weapon.
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Government of Eswatini
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Equitable growth in AI requires equitable capacity.
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Government of Algeria
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AI carries 2 faces. It can support healthcare, education, agriculture, research and development, but without inclusive governance, it can deepen inequality, increase dependency, amplify disinformation, and undermine rights.
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Government of Saudi Arabia
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[W]e need collective action to make sure that the era of AI ensures inclusivity.
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[W]e can really achieve the development of AI for the benefit of human people, humanity as a general.
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Group of Friends for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building
UN member-state coalition advocating equitable international AI capacity-building and access.

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Promote fairness and inclusiveness so that AI benefits every country and everyone.
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Government of Guatemala
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[AI] is oriented toward the welfare of all people rather than the deepening of already existing inequalities.
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Government of Kenya
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AI must expand opportunity and prosperity for all countries and must not deepen existing divides.
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Government of India
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The benefits of AI cannot remain concentrated in a few countries, or indeed a few companies.
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Government of Sri Lanka
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Smaller and developing nations must not be constrained to being just consumers of AI, but be empowered contributors to the knowledge, language, and cultural perspectives upon which future AI systems are built.
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Government of Lesotho
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It must strengthen national capacities, promote openness, support trusted and AI-ready data, manage risks, and uphold meaningful human oversight so that artificial intelligence becomes a tool for shared prosperity and sustainable development for all.
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Government of Slovenia
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We in Slovenia, we see AI as a general-purpose technology whose benefits should be widely shared across societies and economies.
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Government of Egypt
National government of Egypt, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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AI capacity building should extend across the entire public sector, while reskilling initiatives and just transition policies help ensure that AI enhances human capabilities and that its economic benefits are shared equitably.
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UNESCO
UN agency for education, science, culture

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The inaugural session of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance seeks to ensure that governance reflects the priorities of all nations, not just the most technologically advanced, and that the benefits of AI are shared by all.
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United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
United Nations specialized agency promoting inclusive and sustainable industrial development; represented at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

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Our shared goal must be to prevent a widening AI divide, a divide in access to technology, skills, data, and computing power, but also in access to the opportunities that AI can create.
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Rein Tammsaar
Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations and Co-Chair of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance

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Leveraging the convening power of the UN, we must start transforming artificial intelligence into a global public good that benefits all of humanity while ensuring safety by design and meaningful human oversight.
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Loreto Bravo
Director of the Data Science Institute at Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile.

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Foundation models, compute, chips, cloud infrastructures, and frontier training are highly concentrated. This concentration shapes not only who can build but also who can adopt it, adapt it, and capture its economic value.
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Government of Cambodia
National government of Cambodia, speaking through its minister at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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For Cambodia and for many developing nations, the central question is not whether AI should be governed, but how to establish governance that fosters innovation, expand access, build trust, and ensure that the benefits of AI are shared by all.
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Luc Frieden
Prime Minister of Luxembourg

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The Global Digital Compact gives us, I think, the right ambition to ensure that the benefits of AI are shared by all. That commitment must now become a reality.
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Raseed Khan
Co-founder of Yellow.ai

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Collectively, the value AI generates must flow broadly than it is captured across our workers, languages, regions, and generations.
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Marc Alexandre Doumba
Minister of Digital Economy and Innovation of Gabon

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Let us use our imagination to distribute the benefits more fairly. Not more for fewer people, but more for everyone.
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The Global AI Accord
Independent, non-commercial consultation text proposing binding international governance of artificial intelligence.

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The benefits of artificial intelligence in medicine, in science, in agriculture and in education shall be made available across all nations, through mechanisms modelled on the multilateral fund that allowed developing countries to join the Montreal P...
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Rogé Karma
Staff writer at The Atlantic covering economics, technology, and public policy.

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If the wealth generated by artificial intelligence will accrue only to the owners of AI companies, then the way to avoid catastrophic levels of inequality is to give everyone an ownership stake in those companies.
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Checks and Balances to Empower Citizens
Joint AI-governance initiative of the Effective Institutions Project and the Collective Intelligence Project.

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Benefit-sharing across borders. Almost all dividend and ownership proposals stop at the national border. But the populations most exposed to displacement and least able to capture AI’s gains are often outside the countries where it is built. We want ...
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Government of China
National government of the People’s Republic of China, speaking through its delegation at the United Nations on artificial intelligence governance.

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President, China will continue to uphold genuine multilateralism, continue to deepen pragmatic cooperation in building AI capabilities, and work with all parties to promote the development of AI that is open, inclusive, universally beneficial, and fo...
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World Bank
International financial institution that publishes research and policy analysis on global development and the economic effects of artificial intelligence.

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Because the gains from AI tend to accrue to capital and do not reach all workers automatically, labor market, education, social protection, and fiscal policies will be critical to ensuring gains translate into higher living standards and better jobs.
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Jonas Prising
ManpowerGroup chair and CEO

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If, instead, organizations and policy-makers focus on expanding access – by making skills development more inclusive, pathways more visible and work more adaptable – then the next phase of growth can be more widely shared.
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Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator (D-MA)

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We have a decision to make: either AI will profit a handful of the richest people, making them even richer, or the benefits of AI will be used for all Americans.
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Liz Kendall
UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology; Labour MP for Leicester West

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This government is determined to win for Britain on AI. That means seizing the opportunities, dealing with the risks, and shaping this powerful technology to work for all - not just the powerful few.
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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Everyone should have an opportunity for a meaningful share in the prosperity AI creates.
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Baroness Helic
Conservative life peer in the UK House of Lords who has spoken on the societal, employment, and governance impacts of artificial intelligence.

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Progress that excludes a generation is not progress at all.
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Gilbert F. Houngbo
Director-General of the International Labour Organization since 2022; former Prime Minister of Togo.

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Those gains must be distributed fairly through better wages, stronger labour protections and more inclusive growth. Collective bargaining will be essential, alongside AI governance grounded in transparency, accountability and human oversight.
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Kenneth Rogoff
Economist; Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and former Chief Economist of the IMF

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To avoid deepening social fractures, it will need to find ways to distribute the benefits of AI more broadly rather than allowing them to remain concentrated in the hands of a small group of first movers and tech billionaires.
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International Telecommunication Union
United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies.

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The Global Dialogue on AI Governance exists to ensure that governance reflects the priorities of all nations, not just the most technologically advanced, and that the benefits of AI are shared by all.
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Andrew Charlton
Australian Assistant Minister for Science, Technology and the Digital Economy

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The Government has a clear national AI plan that rests on three pillars — capture the opportunity, share the benefits, and keep Australians safe.
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Amandeep Singh Gill
UN Under-Secretary-General and head of the Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies

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We must ensure that its benefits are accessible to all, equitable in terms of impact, and aligned with human well-being.
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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
UK government science department

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The Institute will assess both opportunities and risks under a range of scenarios. It will examine how AI is affecting productivity, labour markets, and growth. A key consideration will be whether AI gains are broadly shared across regions, income gr...
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Qu Dongyu
Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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[T]hat its transformative power be a benefit of all.
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Chris Olah
Anthropic co-founder, pioneer of mechanistic interpretability

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The first is our duty to the global poor. There is a real possibility that AI will displace human labor at very large scale. If that happens, supporting those displaced will be a moral imperative of historic proportions. This task will be difficult e...
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Nick Bostrom
Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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This idea is not about employee share ownership like in the post-war decades in France, but rather the notion that capital will no longer need labor to generate wealth, and that it will therefore be necessary to redistribute this immense wealth throu...
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S. Yash Kalash
Senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation; expert in strategy, public policy, digital technology and financial services.

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If societies act deliberately, building inclusive frameworks and sharing benefits widely, AGI could underpin the most prosperous era in human history. If not, it may amplify inequality, destabilize democracies and concentrate power beyond public cont...
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Kim Yong-beom
Chief of Staff for Policy at South Korea's Presidential Office; former vice finance minister

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Part of those fruits should be structurally returned to all citizens. That is the legitimacy and principle of the new policy design.
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Eileen Chong
Singapore Member of Parliament who speaks on labor and technology policy.

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Ensuring that no one is left behind involves more than ensuring job-ful growth. It requires a commitment to sharing the rewards of AI-driven productivity. [...] Presently, employers are the default beneficiaries. They benefit from more output from th...
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Fu Cong
Chinese arms control diplomat

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We stand ready to work with all parties to turn those visions into reality, and to ensure that the benefits of AI development are shared more broadly and equitably across the world.
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Tan See Leng
Singapore Minister for Manpower; delivered a 2026 parliamentary speech on AI and jobs.

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I agree that the broad sharing of productivity gains does not happen automatically – because markets alone will not guarantee good social outcomes.
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Jasmin Lau
Singapore Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information.

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Where companies benefit from operating and growing in Singapore, we will expect a fair deal for workers. Not just in words, but in how jobs are designed, how people are trained, and how gains are shared.
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Adam Cantwell-Corn
AI and technology policy lead at the UK Trades Union Congress.

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AI presents significant uncertainty for workers, but unmanaged disruption is neither inevitable nor acceptable. We still have the chance to decide how it's used and ensure it benefits us all, not just a powerful few.
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Baroness Martha Lane-Fox
British technology entrepreneur, co-founder of lastminute.com, and former UK digital champion.

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AI is bringing incredible opportunities, but also real disruption. This taskforce will look at where work is changing now, where London should lean in with more ambition, and how we make sure the benefits are shared more widely rather than felt only ...
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Scott Santens
Writer & Basic Income advocate

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AI leaders keep saying UBI is necessary. This pledge asks them to prove it. [...] We all deserve a share of what it makes possible.
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Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont

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If AI and robotics are going to create unprecedented wealth, we as a nation must guarantee all Americans a high-quality standard of living: decent housing, health care, education, and more.
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Rachel Reeves
Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom.

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Every part of our strategy on AI is aimed at ensuring that our people have a share in the prosperity that AI can create, through new and better jobs through better more personalised public services.
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Valeria Ronzitti
Secretary General of SGI Europe, the association of employers and enterprises providing services of general interest.

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Artificial intelligence can offer real productivity gains in energy, transport, healthcare and other Services of General Interest. However, scale alone is not enough: deployment must secure critical infrastructure, reinforce our strategic autonomy an...
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Esther Lynch
General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation.

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AI must be integrated into the workplace in a negotiated way, with better wages, strong worker protections and quality jobs so that workers get their fair share, and with the human-in-control principle.
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Brian Schatz
U.S. Senator (D–Hawaii)

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AI is already changing how people work, and it's bringing real risks: massive job losses, increased workplace surveillance, and weaker bargaining power for workers. We need to get ahead of it. That means investing in workforce training, strengthening...
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New Delhi Declaration on AI Impact
Multilateral declaration adopted at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and endorsed by 92 countries and international organisations.

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The benefits of AI must be equitably shared across humanity.
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António Guterres
UN Secretary-General

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AI must belong to everyone.
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Michael S. Barr
Federal Reserve Board governor

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Society would have to rethink the social safety net to ensure that the gains from unprecedented economic growth are shared rather than concentrated among a small group of capital holders and AI superstars.
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer
U.S. Secretary of Labor

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The Department of Labor is committed to making sure all American workers are able to share in the prosperity that AI will create for our economy.
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Sara Ferrer Olivella
Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Indonesia.

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[S]caling AI adoption, delivering measurable economic impact, and ensuring its benefits are shared across countries and sectors.
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International Monetary Fund
International financial institution

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AI’s uneven impact on workers is another important consideration. While innovation drives growth, it risks displacing jobs and depressing wages for certain segments of the workforce. Policies should focus on lowering barriers to adoption, helping wor...
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Oksana Leukhina
Economist and senior economic policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, researching growth, labor, and demographics.

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The findings suggest that workers who lose out from AI advancement could benefit from having a safety net that helps them share consumption gains with AI-using workers.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin
ITU Secretary-General

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The five pathways outlined in the chapters that follow point to the conditions that must be in place for AI to deliver lasting benefits to all people and our planet – from data governance and infrastructure, to skills, policy and healthy digital and ...
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Anthropic
AI safety research company

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But if that happens, it's likely that AI will have acted as a general substitute for labor: these gains could come with a reduction in demand for human work that is difficult or impossible for many workers to absorb. In this world, the central econom...
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Jeffrey Sachs
American economist

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Shape the changes ahead so that AI fulfills its vast potential to raise living standards and wellbeing, not for a few, but for all parts of society and all regions of the world.
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Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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As a result, concentrated economic power in one or two countries could trigger economic and social crises elsewhere, unless the economic benefits of AI are globally shared or at least unless the same level of AI competence is available at an equitabl...
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Lin Jian
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

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In the development and governance of AI, countries need to support each other, work together, make sure that all countries enjoy equal rights, equal opportunities and equal rules, jointly foster an open, inclusive, universally beneficial and non-disc...
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Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic

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There is a need for governments to use their much greater resources to do similar measurement and monitoring—and eventually to enact policy focused on ensuring that everyone shares in the economic benefits of very powerful AI.
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Anna Yelizarova
Founding researcher of the Windfall Trust (a Future of Life Institute initiative); researcher on AI economics and global benefit-sharing

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[A global dividend system would] deliver recurring payouts to individuals, grounded in the principle that every person holds a legitimate claim to a share of the value created by transformative technologies [...] recognizing that modern AI systems ar...
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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I wonder if the future looks something more like universal basic compute than universal basic income. [...] Everybody gets a slice of GPT-7's compute, and they can use it, they can resell it, they can donate it to somebody to use for cancer research....
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Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO

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I'm much more focused on the benefits to all of us. I am haunted by the fact that the industrial revolution didn't touch the parts of the world where I grew up until much later. So I am looking for the thing that may be even bigger than the industria...
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