The Missing Institution: A Global Dividend System for the Age of Transformative AI

How do we share prosperity in society if work no longer sits at the center of people’s lives? In this essay, Anna Yelizarova explores one provocative possibility: a “global dividend.” If transformative AI shows little respect for national borders, with effects that spill across countries, then we need a global mechanism that is capable of sharing prosperity out across those borders as well. The idea has precedents—but the practical challenge of implementing it would be immense.