Alex Bores

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The Ezra Klein Show · Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

And so the idea of the AI dividend is, what if we end up in that world where all human labor is replaced or just a significant portion of it is displaced?

How do you have a society that is actually functioning then?

And you have to start talking about a universal basic income.

And the idea is to make sure that we are setting up the structures now that would allow

lead for Americans to be protected if we end up in that future.

And I have a lot of things about how we can prevent that future, changes, et cetera.

But the AI dividend is almost that insurance policy.

And you could fund it via boring things like a wealth tax I've been talked about.

You could fund it via a token tax.

So putting a tax on the usage of AI, maybe limited to commercial opportunities where you're replacing human labor or not.

And that's a fine policy as long as investment in capital always leads to more jobs, which has been economic theory for hundreds of years.

But maybe AI is shifting that.

And so if it's shifting that, we need to shift our tax policy to be taxing AI and to be discounting hiring humans.

And token tax starts to get at that.

But then the other funding mechanism that I talk about for the AI dividend is actually taking warrants in these companies, large out-of-the-money warrants, where you say, you know, if the value of the AI companies were to go up an enormous amount, then the government would have the right to buy shares at a set price.

They basically only pay off if one or multiple of the companies are wildly successful, basically if they are replacing all human labor.

And if you institute that now, then VCs celebrate it and say you're participating in the upside.

And if you try to implement it after one of them are successful, then you're seizing the means of production and seizing wealth.

And so my idea is you go down all of these paths.

You start to find ways to have the revenue to actually fund production.

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