Andrew Yang floats AI sovereign wealth fund paying universal dividend from top AI firms
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-28
In a UBI discussion, Andrew Yang revealed he was personally paid $2,500 for AI using his work, and argued for an "AI sovereign wealth fund" modeled on Norway's.
His proposal: a "universal basic dividend" distributing AI-generated wealth to Americans via a weighted index of top AI companies — with the core contention being how to define which companies count. He also floated wage insurance to cushion workers (e.g., someone making $80k/year) whose jobs are displaced by AI. The framing: the real UBI question is how AI wealth gets redistributed.
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