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

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  Enrique Dans

  Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger

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  If new wealth is generated using infrastructure, education, data, energy, institutional stability and decades of public investment, why should it be captured almost exclusively by a handful of companies and shareholders? [...] The Alaska Permanent Fu... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Bernie Sanders

  U.S. Senator from Vermont

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  The billions, if not trillions, generated by this legislation would provide direct payments to the American people and help guarantee health care, education and housing as human rights. AI Verified source (2026)

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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 result of any single company alone. They are built on an industrial foundation accumulated collectively by the Korean people over the past half-century. [...] part of those gains should be structura... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Ro Khanna

  U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district

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  Our taxpayer dollars and philanthropic dollars funded the development of AI at Dartmouth, MIT, and at Stanford with ImageNet and with the Digital Library Project that helped give birth to Google. To whom much is given, at least, a little is expected.... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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  Tom Steyer

  Billionaire investor, climate activist, and 2026 California gubernatorial candidate; founder of Farallon Capital and NextGen America

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  I refuse to let California's future be a boom for billionaires and a bust for everyone else. [...] The people need to own some of this upside so we can protect people from losing their jobs and make sure we don't get hollowed out by a technology that... more AI Verified source (2026)

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  Mary Bogle

  Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute

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  Policymakers could classify human knowledge itself as the capital AI utilizes and require AI companies to pay royalties into a trust that issues a universal dividend to human beings. [...] AI companies are training their models on the knowledge of bi... more AI Verified source (2026)

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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 ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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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. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

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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... more AI Verified source (2026)

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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... more AI Verified source (2026)

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