Center for Shared AI Prosperity launches to craft AI economic policies

Dylan Matthews, along with pollster David Shor, Obama/Biden veteran Stef Feldman, political strategist Morris Katz, Harvard historian Marc Aidinoff, and others, has announced the launch of the Center for Shared AI Prosperity (CSAIP). The organization aims to compel Washington policy elites, particularly liberals and progressives, to take the impending economic impacts of advanced AI seriously. Matthews argues that even if humanity survives superintelligence, we will face extreme wealth concentration, political instability from inequality, and challenges to funding governments that rely on income and payroll taxes. CSAIP focuses on four policy areas: taxation and revenue policy (capturing AI-generated corporate wealth), income support and safety nets (redistributing gains to displaced workers), labor market restructuring (retraining and reduced hours), and ownership models (sovereign wealth funds, universal basic capital).

CSAIP is soliciting policy ideas through two tracks. Track 1 allows submissions of 500–1,000 word writeups (unpaid) that may receive public opinion polling from Blue Rose Research to gauge voter receptiveness. Track 2 offers compensation for promising ideas, with selected submitters commissioned to write longer policy briefs. The organization hopes to build a suite of viable policies with broad public buy-in and then lobby Congress and the administration. Matthews emphasizes that the LessWrong community, which has long considered these issues, is especially encouraged to submit ideas. The board also includes Jason Goldman, Josh Hendler, Lindsay Lamont, and Jesse Stinebring.