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Will the AI Economy Have a Middle Class? The Case for an AI Homestead Policy
English Summary
The article argues that the rapid advancement of AI risks creating extreme wealth concentration and displacing the middle class, threatening the fundamental American model of converting wages into assets. To counter this, the authors propose an "AI Homestead Policy," drawing parallels to historical acts that broadened public access to productive frontiers. This policy requires systemic interventions beyond market forces, including massive workforce retooling, establishing personal data rights, and mandating a "compute commons." Ultimately, the strategy calls for giving local communities an ownership stake in AI infrastructure to ensure that the gains of the new economy are broadly shared, rather than concentrated among a few large tech firms.
中文摘要
本文論述，人工智慧的快速發展恐致極端的財富集中化，並取代中產階級，威脅到美國將工資轉化為資產的根本模式。為應對此危機，作者們提出了一項「AI 墾殖政策」（AI Homestead Policy），並將其與歷史上擴大公眾對生產前沿可及性的行為相類比。此政策要求超越市場力量的系統性干預，包括大規模的勞動力重塑、建立個人數據權利，以及強制設立「運算公共資源」（compute commons）。最終，該策略呼籲讓地方社區在AI基礎設施中擁有所有權份額，以確保新經濟的收益能夠得到廣泛分享，而非僅集中於少數大型科技公司手中。
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