I have been pretty solid on “AI Dividend” framing, which is basically not about “what do people need to survive” and is instead about “what is a fair share of the surplus from an AI windfall?”
The pitch for this is “It’s like how Alaska has so much oil, it’s citizens get an oil dividend check instead of paying taxes. It’ll come from a small tax on compute, which doesn’t do much unless/until AI begins to transform the economy and take all the jobs, and then everyone gets a share proportional to how huge that windfall is.”
I have been pretty solid on “AI Dividend” framing, which is basically not about “what do people need to survive” and is instead about “what is a fair share of the surplus from an AI windfall?”
The pitch for this is “It’s like how Alaska has so much oil, it’s citizens get an oil dividend check instead of paying taxes. It’ll come from a small tax on compute, which doesn’t do much unless/until AI begins to transform the economy and take all the jobs, and then everyone gets a share proportional to how huge that windfall is.”
(Alaska is a red state)