Former Palantir Employee Running For Congress Unveils 'AI Dividend' Plan
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/04/20/204204/former-palantir-employee-running-for-congress-unveils-ai-dividend-plan
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> The dividend would fund direct payments to Americans. It would also be invested into workforce training and education, as well as government capacity to "govern AI safely and fund independent oversight," per the plan memo.
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> "You don't take out fire insurance because you expect your house to burn down -- you have insurance in case something goes awry," Bores told Axios in an interview. "Here we have, for the first time, a technology where the makers of the technology are explicitly saying that their goal is to replace all human labor." "The fact that they've put it out there means government needs to take it seriously." [...]
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> The proposal would be funded through:
> - A token tax, described in the memo as a "modest tax on AI consumption"
> - Equity participation in frontier AI firms
> - Changes to the tax code that would reduce incentives to invest in AI "when it leads to less work"
"If [AI companies] they can support this plan, that would show that they actually believe in what they're putting out there," Bores said. "If they're not doing it, then I think it shows that they're really putting window dressing out there."
Further reading: [3]Palantir Posts Bond Villain Manifesto On X
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-new-york-state-representative-alex-bores/
[2] https://www.axios.com/2026/04/20/alex-bores-ai-dividend-plan-wealth
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/04/20/1654212/palantir-posts-bond-villain-manifesto-on-x
Title Correction: (Score:3, Insightful)
> Former Palantir Employee Running For Congress Unveils 'AI Dividend' Plan
Former Privary Rapist Employee Running For Congress
There FTFY.
Completely disingenuous statement. (Score:2)
> "If [AI companies] they can support this plan, that would show that they actually believe in what they're putting out there," Bores said. "If they're not doing it, then I think it shows that they're really putting window dressing out there."
No. This is not a simple either/or despite the framing. It could be that they actually believe what they're putting out there, but that they absolutely *DO NOT*, under any circumstances, want to share the profits they make while decimating the workforce with those who are being affected by the massive job disruptions. And, I'm sorry to have to point this out to anyone supposedly familiar with the situation, but we already have forty plus years of proof that corporations are not well intentioned actors in th
Look this is just dumb (Score:3)
We can fight every fire individually, or we can institute UBI, or we can admit that we don't give a fuck about other humans and want them to die.
If your economic system says people must be productive to be able to survive, and also enshrines eliminating jobs so that people can't do that, it's an attack on other humans and their only rational response is to attack it with everything they have so that they can be permitted to live.
Democrats (Score:2)
Why would they work for Palantier? I disaffiliated from this party 16 years ago. It was one of the best decisions of my life.
Re: (Score:2)
... except for all the ones that don't (and don't support your thesis).
Re: (Score:2)
> All the San Francisco people are Democrats
I bet you believe donny dipshit is one too
Next you'll also believe he's a Jew