AI dividend funded by token tax

A congressional candidate proposes an 'AI dividend' that would pay Americans direct cash if AI causes major job losses. The plan would fund payments, workforce training, and independent AI oversight by taxing AI consumption (a token tax), taking equity stakes in frontier AI firms, and changing tax incentives that favor automation over work. — If adopted or debated, this reframes AI policy from narrow safety and competition concerns into questions of distribution, corporate accountability, and public ownership of technological gains.