Bradley Tusk

a decade ago when he proposed universal basic income, because I think that we are going to be in a world.

And I will say, I just saw a white paper the other day, Daniel Schreiber, who's the founder and CEO of Lemonade, which is an insurance tech company, funded a study in Israel that had the idea of basically creating a new type of tax that as corporate profits increase because they've reduced headcount, taxing that as sort of a VAT and then redistributing that to people

and what he calls the negative income tax, but effectively is a form of universal basic income.

So there are ideas out there, but you have to think about them.

And right now, politicians just say job training, but we can't all become plumbers.

That's not going to solve the problem.

And then the fourth would be

Where AI can do good.

So if you think back to Doge and it was a total disaster, but where Doge could have been really great is how do we bring AI into government to do things like procurement, compliance, licensing, permitting, data management, facilities management.

There are a lot of ways that we could make our government a lot more efficient and a lot more cost effective.

And so the challenge is you have to be able to think about all of these different categories at the same time.

And that really requires thoughtful leadership.

And because we live in a world where I believe every policy outcome is driven by a political input, politicians are thinking about their next election.

They're thinking really about their next primary, basically.

And they're not thinking about all of the different complications that we just outlined.

And so this is a time where we really need

truly transformational leadership at all levels of government.

And by and large, we don't really have it.

One final piece, at least a small measure that I'm trying to do, which is to use AI in a way to cut against some of that institutional power.

Out of my foundation, we're coding a tool called How to Create Societal Change that will be an agent where you can put in there, okay, I want to ban cell phones at my kid's school.