More than two hundred economists and AI researchers, sixteen Nobel laureates among them, signed a letter saying AI's economic transformation could outrun the Industrial Revolution on a fraction of the clock. Their ask is institutions. Here is what one could look like.
We finished the sixteen Foundation essays and told no one. A note on why building is easier than claiming, and why announcing is itself part of the build.
Four months of work. Sixteen essays. One framework for what society owes its people during the AI transition.
Pick any Foundation component and watch the investment cascade through all 16. These aren't separate programs. They're one system.
Universal Basic Citizenship was the right idea with the wrong name. The framework hasn't changed. What changed is that we stopped describing infrastructure and started naming it.
An interactive chord diagram mapping the relationships between human needs, Foundation programs, and their societal impacts.
Why abundance isn't charity. It's alignment infrastructure. The single argument that connects consciousness research to AI safety to political economy.
UBI gives people money. Foundation gives people membership. The difference matters more than you'd think.
Yes, Foundation includes UBI. Money is one tool among sixteen: necessary but nowhere near sufficient.