What mechanisms can ensure AI-driven productivity gains are captured for the public benefit?
Public & Social Investments | Windfall Policy Atlas
How should governments allocate resources to maintain economic stability and ensure broad access to essential services during the AI transition?
Regulation & Market Design | Windfall Policy Atlas
What rules and institutional structures will shape how AI-driven economic value is created and distributed?
Windfall Policy Atlas | Windfall Trust
An overview of policy proposals to respond to the economic disruption from transformative AI.
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek | TechCrunch
OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.
Labor Market Adaptation | Windfall Policy Atlas
How can workers, firms, and education systems adapt to an AI-transformed economy?
AI Adoption and Inequality
There are competing narratives about artificial intelligence’s impact on inequality. Some argue AI will exacerbate economic disparities, while others suggest it could reduce inequality by primarily disrupting high-income jobs. Using household microdata and a calibrated task-based model, we show these narratives reflect different channels through which AI affects the economy. Unlike previous waves of automation that increased both wage and wealth inequality, AI could reduce wage inequality through the displacement of high-income workers. However, two factors may counter this effect: these workers’ tasks appear highly complementary with AI, potentially increasing their productivity, and they are better positioned to benefit from higher capital returns. When firms can choose how much AI to adopt, the wealth inequality effect is particularly pronounced, as the potential cost savings from automating high-wage tasks drive significantly higher adoption rates. Models that ignore this adoption decision risk understating the trade-off policymakers face between inequality and efficiency.
Global Coordination | Windfall Policy Atlas
How can international cooperation ensure the benefits of AI are shared globally?
Built on Shared Knowledge: What the World Wants from AI Wealth
AI labs and policymakers are focusing on AI dividends to address economic insecurity. We asked 1,041 people across 64 countries what they actually want from AI wealth.
March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust
Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy
Meredith Whittaker on Twitter / X
Now that even Goldman, Sequoia, and other major investors are calling it, it's good to remember that the shakiness of the AI market, and the mismatch between capex and ROI, has been clear for a long time to those of us who look closely at the political economy of AI. https://t.co/dLLNAcW5Sn— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) July 30, 2024
Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI
This article argues that tax policy offers a core tool for mitigating the sweeping public policy challenges of generative Artificial Intelligence ("AI"
OpenAI Calls for New Industrial Policy as AI Reshapes Economy and Governance
OpenAI’s policy paper argues that governments must adopt a new industrial policy to manage AI’s economic disruption.
Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan - Schneier on Security
Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?” We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today. Our book, Rewiring Democracy, surveys the emerging uses for and impacts of AI in democracy around the world and reaches the same conclusion: that the most urgent risk posed by AI is the ...
Import AI 452: Scaling laws for cyberwar; rising tides of AI automation; and a puzzle over gDP forecasting
How much could AI revolutionize the economy?
Celebrating 250 million: Empowering communities to enable the global AI economy
Microsoft surpasses its digital access goal, partnering with governments and Starlink to expand connectivity and support long‑term participation in the AI economy
