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

A moratorium will give us time to ensure AI is safe and effective, time to protect our privacy and well-being, time to defend our democracy, and time to make sure the economic gains of this technology benefit the general population, not just a handfu... more AI Verified source (2026)

As with every major technological shift, AI tends to amplify the power of those who already possess economic resources, expertise and access to data. [...] AI technology in the hands of few, profit-oriented individuals or groups represents a new form... more AI Verified source (2026)

A sovereign wealth fund would not replace capitalism. It would extend capitalism's upside to people the current structure leaves out. [...] It would invest in society alongside the people already benefiting from these rapidly appreciating assets so t... more AI Verified source (2026)

Without collective action, artificial intelligence will deepen historical inequalities. [...] The data generated by our citizens, companies, and public bodies is being appropriated by a few conglomerates, with no equivalent compensation in terms of v... more AI Verified source (2026)

The benefits of advanced AI will be shared. Otherwise it's not going to be a very stable world. We need international agreements about how to both manage the risks — the technical risks, the misuse risks — but also manage the power, so it's more like... more AI Verified source (2026)

We are moving toward a world where universal basic income could become a reality, while at the same time AI may create levels of wealth we have never seen before, including the rise of trillionaires. AI Verified source (2026)

All of us within a small number of years will have a medical assistant that's essentially free to operate. [...] substantial quality for free for everyone in society. AI Verified source (2026)

The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the outcome of individual companies alone, but are built on the industrial foundation that the entire nation has accumulated over the past half-century. [...] Part of those fruits should be structurally... more AI Verified source (2026)

AI leaders keep saying UBI is necessary. This pledge asks them to prove it. [...] We all deserve a share of what [AI] makes possible. AI Verified source (2026)

We will probably in the coming years end up with a handful of trillionaires—that is OK in a sense that we need to aspire to something. But if we suddenly have 100 trillionaires or 1,000 trillionaires, something will be fundamentally wrong with the wo... more AI Verified source (2026)

We don't have to be passengers in the AI revolution, we can be drivers. Right now, policy is focused on speeding up AI adoption, but not on where it's taking us. Without a clearer direction, we risk ending up with more inequality, more concentrated p... more AI Verified source (2026)

Once you see AGI you can't unsee it. It has a real 'ring of power' dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things. I don't mean that AGI is the ring itself, but instead the totalizing philosophy of 'being the one to control AGI'. [...] The only solu... more AI Verified source (2026)

The natural policy response to an enormous economic pie coupled with high inequality (due to a lack of jobs, or poorly paid jobs, for many) is progressive taxation. [...] The thing to worry about is a level of wealth concentration that will break soc... more Verified source (2026)

The impact of this technology will be shaped, not just by the capabilities as they advance, but also the choices that we make, and those choices will help us pursue a vision that the benefits of the technology can be broadly felt, and whatever transi... more AI Verified source (2026)

I'm surprised by people who basically use it only to take out costs. Instead, why don't you use it to become more productive and gain market share? You are going to make adoption faster and easier for yourself - and you are going to make it easier fo... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

I think we have a collective interest in managing this transition well. And if successful, we will be more affluent. We will have more possibilities. But it does not follow that those will be at all evenly distributed unless we take actions in that d... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

The United States is on track to win the AI race — and hollow itself out in the process. Slowing AI innovation isn't the answer. We need a new grand bargain between the public and private sectors — where employers are held responsible for defining sk... more AI Verified source (2026)

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)

They're not racing to augment and support human workers. They're racing to replace human workers. [...] [This] will lead to unprecedented levels of concentration and wealth and power because essentially, all the money in the economy — instead of bein... more AI Verified source (2026)

We would agree – if we have to do that to save society. Society will have more production. We're going to cure a lot of cancers. You're not going to slow it down. How do you have plans in place to make it work better if it does something terrible? AI Verified source (2026)

People are increasingly worried about AI, and for good reason. If governments can't show what AI is for and how it will improve lives, that concern could quickly turn into outright opposition. The task now is to make AI work for the public, not just ... more AI Verified source (2026)

Using AI as an engine for growth is the only path for global prosperity, for all. [...] We must commit to providing access to the technology and the talent for small and medium-sized enterprises. [SMEs represent] 50 per cent of the world's GDP, and i... more AI Verified source (2026)

[AI] is capital intensive, energy intensive, data intensive. It prospers if there is plenty of that. If we don't work cooperatively, there will be less data to process, less capital flowing, and that is not conducive to the prosperity of a sector tha... more AI Verified source (2026)

We can build an AI economy that concentrates value, hollows out demand, and forces society into a reactive cycle of backlash and repair. Or we can build an AI economy that circulates, where discoveries diffuse, where productivity dividends translate ... more AI Verified source (2026)

If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive. AI Verified source (2026)

I'm pretty confident about the productivity gains and about the wealth that is going to be created. I'm really concerned that it's not going to be evenly distributed, and that a lot of people will be hurt in a significant way. AI Verified source (2026)

Universal Basic Capital is a better fit for the digital economy of the future. It invites all those who labour for their living to earn value from investment in technology. AI Verified source (2026)

This is moving so fast, and yet we don't know how to make it safe. We don't know how to make it inclusive. [...] Is it going to help the majority to have better opportunities, better jobs, better lives? Or is it going to be a divisive force that wide... more AI Verified source (2026)

AI, perhaps more than any other technology this century, will play a decisive role in either closing this economic divide or exacerbating it. [...] If AI is deployed broadly and used well by a young and growing population, it offers a real prospect f... more AI Verified source (2026)

I'm optimistic about the potential of AI to lift the countries that are emerging. [...] We need to make sure that the average pensioner, the average saver, is a part of [AI's] growth. If they're just watching it from the sidelines, they're going to f... more AI Verified source (2026)

We need regulations that prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profits. Artists at these companies need to have a say in how AI is deployed. They should share in the profits. And there should be a tax on mass displaceme... more Unverified source (2026)

At its core, the AI Dividend is simple: if AI dramatically increases productivity and concentrates wealth, the American people have a stake in those gains. [...] You don't take out fire insurance because you expect your house to burn down — you have ... more AI Verified source (2026)

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation. Unverified source (2026)

There's a race to the top and a race to the bottom. And the race to the bottom is faster than the race to the top. [...] All of us who have a stake in AI being useful to humanity have to accelerate and redouble our efforts to make the diffusion happe... more AI Verified source (2026)

A bad outcome is one where the end result of AI is even higher concentrations of wealth and power in this country than what we already have. [...] A good outcome is one where the end result of AI is a shorter work week and more money in your pocket. AI Verified source (2026)

AI will result in a more extreme winner-take-all economy, where the path to social mobility and middle-class status is broken. AI Verified source (2026)

The same greedy corporate power brokers today want us to believe that killing millions of jobs in the name of AI will be a good thing, and the working class knows better. [...] AI must benefit workers. AI Verified source (2026)

There's a real risk artificial intelligence could widen wealth inequality if ownership does not broaden alongside it. [...] A critical part of the solution is bringing more people into the capital markets—so they can share in the growth already takin... more AI Verified source (2026)

International cooperation through forums like this summit, from the UK, Paris, Seoul, to India, is essential to ensure benefits are universal and dangers contained. AI Verified source (2026)

AI will transform economies and need a rethink of capitalism & equity. Labor portion of economy (vs capital) will decline sharply. Unverified source (2026)

For Norway, it is a top priority to ensure that Artificial Intelligence benefits everyone, every society, and every country. AI Verified source (2026)

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. AI Verified source (2026)

Artificial Intelligence must enable humanity to innovate faster and transform healthcare, energy, mobility, agriculture and public services for the benefit of mankind. AI Verified source (2026)

For this not to be a bubble, by definition, it requires that the benefits of this [technology] are much more evenly spread. AI Verified source (2026)

If we don't do anything about managing AI, there is a threat that it will lead to more inequality. And since inequality is such a bad, serious problem in our society, that is a great concern to me. AI Verified source (2026)

We should use 2026 to prepare ourselves for these changes—including which policies will best help spread the wealth and deal with the important role jobs play in our society. AI Verified source (2026)

Technology brings incredible benefits, but we must ensure everyone has access to them. We cannot allow the digital divide to become an AI divide. AI Verified source (2026)

India's direction and vision for AI are clear: AI is a shared resource for the welfare of humanity. AI Verified source (2026)

AI must benefit everyone. [...] The future of AI cannot be decided by a handful of countries – or left to the whims of a few billionaires. AI Verified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. AI Verified source (2026)

The fruits of the AI industry are not the government's "free safe." This is an anti-market idea that goes against market principles and is no different from socialist-style distribution. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

[The proposal to pay all citizens a dividend from AI and semiconductor windfall profits] is a populist idea driven by an obsession with immediate votes and an act that shakes the foundation of the free market economy. AI Verified source (2026)