Could AI Pay Americans $1 Million Each? New Think Tank Forecast Sparks Jim Chanos' SpaceX Jab: 'Seems Reasonable'

The AI Futures Project, a non-profit initiative that forecasts the future of artificial intelligence, recently outlined a proposal for a citizen’s dividend by the U.S. government following AI-induced unemployment. Citizen’s Dividend to Provide $1 Million Per Person By 2035 In the AI 2040 Plan A, the non-profit says that by 2033, AI-induced unemployment would rise due to the advent of millions of AI agents boosting productivity. Read Also: This Former Tesla Scientist Is Developing a Rival to Elon Musk's Optimus as Humanoid Robot Race Heats Up “Across a variety of companies, there are now 60 million AI agents running continuously at 20x human speed,” the project said. The non-profit then mentions a plan that involves the American government distributing the “majority of compute and robot permit fees as a Citizen’s Dividend… to all American adults...