Announcing the Center for Shared AI Prosperity

I wanted to share the launch of a project I've been working on with pollster David Shor, Obama/Biden veteran Stef Feldman, political strategist Morris Katz, Harvard historian Marc Aidinoff, and a few other folks*.The Center for Shared AI Prosperity is an attempt to force DC policy elites, particularly (given our team's backgrounds) liberals/progressives, to take the impending economic impacts of advanced AI more seriously. We do not think this is a normal economic shock. We are deeply uncertain about what kind of economic shock it will be, but even if humans manage to survive the advent of superintelligence, we'll be left with a world of extreme power and wealth concentration, increasing political instability arising from that growing inequality, and deep questions about how to fund governments that have for a century-plus relied on income and payroll taxes.Our main purpose as an organization is to surface tractable ideas across four main areas:Taxation and Revenue Policy: New or reformed revenue raisers that allow the U.S. government (federal, state, or local) to capture a fair share of corporate wealth generated by AI without causing undue distortionsIncome Support and Social Safety Nets: New or reformed programs to redistribute gains from AI to workers who have been displaced or citizens otherwise not benefiting from the transitionLabor Market Restructuring and Workforce Development: New or reformed initiatives to retrain workers displaced by AI or to restructure/re-regulate the labor market so people can still access paid employment, perhaps with reduced hoursOwnership, Governance, and Stakeholder Models: Ideas like sovereign wealth funds, "universal basic capital," windfall clauses, and other proposals that seek to more directly give all citizens shares of the AI surplus.We have two tracks for idea proposals. Track 1 involves submitting a 500-1,000 word writeup of an idea; this track does not offer compensation but can involve Blue Rose Research, a leading poli