Alex Bores

That’s why I’ve proposed the AI Dividend: direct payments to Americans — funded through a token tax on AI usage and government equity stakes in frontier AI firms, designed to automatically kick in on clear economic triggers.

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.

We shouldn’t let tech companies deploy potentially dangerous AI systems without safety testing.

It is not a punishment for innovation — it is an insurance policy.

A “frontier model” means a foundation model that was trained using a quantity of computing power greater than 10²⁶ integer or floating-point operations. Before, or concurrently with, deploying a new frontier model or a substantially modified version ...

A FRONTIER DEVELOPER SHALL REPORT ANY CRITICAL SAFETY INCIDENT PERTAINING TO ONE OR MORE OF ITS FRONTIER MODELS TO THE OFFICE WITHIN SEVENTY-TWO HOURS FROM A DETERMINATION THAT A CRITICAL SAFETY INCIDENT HAS OCCURRED OR WITHIN SEVENTY-TWO HOURS OF TH...

you design your own safety protocols ahead of time [...] if your models fail your own tests, we want to know about it.

So the RAISE Act asks for companies to do four things. They have to have an SSP. They have to have that SSP audited by a third party, not the government. They actually have to choose their own third party that does that. They have to disclose critica...