A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits

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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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  Mary Bogle

  Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute

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  Meanwhile, AI companies are training their models on the knowledge of billions of human beings. [...] To turn this concept into policy, policymakers could classify human knowledge itself as the capital AI utilizes and require AI companies to pay roya...

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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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  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...

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  Alex Bores

  New York State Assemblymember

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  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. [...] It's a way to ensure that if AI transforms the economy, it strengthens the country, not ...

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  Lee Jae-myung

  President of South Korea (since 2025); leader of the Democratic Party; former Governor of Gyeonggi Province and Mayor of Seongnam

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  votes For and says:

  [My policy chief's remarks amounted to] a review of a plan to distribute the national excess tax revenue generated from excess profits in the AI sector to the public as a citizen's dividend.

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  Joseph Blasi

  J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University; Director Emeritus, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing

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  Right now, the priority is to develop capital ownership 'homestead stakes' by as many citizens as possible. [...] Like Alaska, an AI permanent fund would use the dividends and some of the capital gains to create capital income payments. The payouts w...

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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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  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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  Koh Dong-jin

  Member of South Korea's National Assembly (People Power Party); former President and CEO of Samsung Electronics' mobile division (known as DJ Koh)

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  votes Against and says:

  [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.

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  Jean-Marie Harribey

  Economist. Conseil scientific d'Attac France. Economistes Aterrés. Fondation Copernic.

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  votes Against and says:

  Would the payment of a basic income to the whole population foster the same macroeconomic mechanism (i.e. a demand-led stimulation)? Yes if such payments anticipate additional production. But, by definition, the unconditional basic income is isolated...

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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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  votes Against and says:

  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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  Mateo Alaluf

  Sociologist. Université libre de Bruxelles.

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  To replace a social security system primarily financed by contributions and based on wage solidarity with a rent paid by the Government and financed by tax income seems a war machine against the welfare state. In addition, an income provided uncondit...

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  Jorge Riechmann

  Poet, mathematician, philosopher, ecologist and political scientist.

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  votes Against and says:

  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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  Peter Howitt

  Canadian economist; 2025 Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences; Brown University professor; co-developer of Schumpeterian endogenous growth theory

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  votes Against and says:

  [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...

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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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  votes Against and says:

  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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  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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