March 27, USANon-profit organizations AI What we WillIn response to the wave of unemployment caused by AI, the basic income plan, called "AI Dividend", was launched。
THE PROJECT HAS RAISED INITIAL FUNDING OF $0.3 MILLION (NOTE: THE CURRENT EXCHANGE RATE IS ABOUT RMB 2.072,000) FOR GROUPS THAT LOST JOBS OR LOST THEIR INCOMES AS A RESULT OF AI TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSIONThe first group of 25 to 50 workers will receive $1,000 per person per month for a period of one year。
Kaitlin Cort, one of the project ' s sponsors and a senior software engineer, noted that the impact of AI on the job market was particularly significant in the primary programming area。
With the large-scale introduction of IA programming assistants such as Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic Claude, recruitment needs for junior positions are almost depleted。
Cort found that even if a student finds a job, its content is often alienated into low-value duplicated work, such as a proofreading IA-generated code clip, rather than real engineering development。
This trend of “de-skilling” has prompted her to promote basic income schemes to help those young people who have been marginalized by the technological wave through the career transition。
ALTHOUGH THE “AI DIVIDEND” PROJECT HAS AN AMBITIOUS PLAN TO RELEASE $3 MILLION IN 2026, ITS FUNDING SOURCE REMAINS VARIABLE. THE ORGANIZERS WANTED TO KEEP THE PROJECT RUNNING BY LOBBYING THE LUCRATIVE AI CONTRIBUTION, BUT THIS FACED CONSIDERABLE OPERATIONAL RESISTANCE。
While scholars such as “AI Godfather”, Geoffrey Hinton, have publicly supported basic income schemes, there have been opposition voices. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, warned that the mere distribution of cash might not be sufficient to address the psychosocial problems and underlying structural imbalances caused by unemployment。