Alex Boris

Yeah, so the idea of the AI dividend is to give Americans a stake in the development of AI and approaching with humility that we don't know exactly what's going to happen with the labor market.

We could hit a bottleneck and it could end up more like past technologies or this is the first technology where the makers of it are saying their goal is to replace all human labor.

Mm-hmm.

It doesn't mean they'll succeed, but when that goal's on the table, government's got to take it seriously.

So the AI dividend would raise revenue from a few sources to spend it on things to help protect Americans in this transition or to really just keep their security.

So on the low end, that could be things like

Job retraining programs, investment in community colleges, tax breaks for companies that retain workers and retrain them instead of laying them off, right?

In the middle, it could be something like a job guarantee.

I mean, we have so much productive work in government at the city, state, and federal level we could put people to if we had the funding for it.

And at the most disruptive, if it does replace all human labor or something close to it, could pay out a universal basic income or universal high income.

The RAISE Act was such a light touch piece of legislation, but it is the strongest AI safety law in the country.

So it says that the absolute largest frontier AI developers.

So right now, that would really only apply to XAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.

right?

Microsoft isn't there yet.

They might be.

Amazon isn't there yet.

They might be.

But the biggest of the big, they have to have a safety plan that they make public for how they'll handle risks around what could happen if someone were to misuse it for a bioweapon or how they could lose control of AI or like the really big impacts.

They have to make that public.