The gains from AI should flow to every American, not just the people who build it.
AI capabilities are advancing faster than the political system is responding. The majority of Americans are rightfully anxious about the near- and long-term impact of the technology. Americans are concerned that, without action, AI could further solidify a system that is too often rigged against their interests.
Americans aren't anti-technology. They're optimistic about what AI can do and wary of a small number of corporate leaders capturing the vast majority of its benefits. CSAIP is a growing research coalition working to refine and compare progressive visions for a U.S. economy in which AI has replaced and disrupted a large number of jobs.
The public is demanding a new economic vision for a world fundamentally transformed by AI. There is no serious framework for what comes next. CSAIP is building one by listening to what Americans actually believe, fear, and expect.
Americans are forming views about AI that create a clear opening for leaders willing to listen.
- AI is rising in importance faster than any other issue facing Americans.
- Americans lean slightly optimistic about AI's development overall, but optimism fades sharply when they consider long-term societal impacts and the speed of advancement.
- Americans are ready to support structural solutions, including taxing AI profits to fund Social Security and Medicare.
This set of circumstances opens up Americans to a structurally different economic arrangement, but with important caveats: redistributive proposals earn broad support when tied to dignified work, funded by taxes on those benefiting from AI, and linked to programs Americans already trust.
We will ask what Americans want from public institutions as work is destabilized, not what they should want, but what they actually believe, fear, and expect. Our work will be guided by three principles.
A growing coalition of policymakers, journalists, technologists, and historians.
Board
- Jason GoldmanChief Digital Officer for the Obama White House
- Josh HendlerTechnologist working on AI and its implications for democracy and elections
- Lindsay LamontSenior advisor with a decade building products at early- and growth-stage technology companies
- Dylan MatthewsProgram officer at Coefficient Giving; longtime policy journalist at Vox
Advisors
- Marc AidinoffHistorian of technology and public policy at Harvard; former policymaker in the Biden and Obama administrations
- Stef FeldmanPolicy and communications strategist; former Biden 2020 national policy director and White House senior policy advisor
- Morris KatzPartner at The Fight Agency
- David ShorCo-Founder and Head of Data Science at Blue Rose Research
- Jesse StinebringCo-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Blue Rose Research
Concrete, implementable policy ideas for ensuring the gains from AI flow to American families.
The Center is soliciting policy ideas for how U.S. federal, state, or local governments should ensure the gains from AI flow to American families and communities. We welcome proposals from economists, policy researchers, think tanks, academic institutions, labor leaders, and technologists. We are looking for ideas that go beyond diagnosis to offer concrete, implementable proposals.
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