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902 South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/12/2026 19:00 EDT

South Korea Floats 'Citizen Dividend' Using AI Profits

South Korea's presidential policy chief is calling for a "citizen dividend" that would return some AI-driven profits and tax revenue to the public. The Straits Times. From the report: Presidential policy chief Kim Yong-beom said in a Facebook post that a portion of the profits and tax revenue derived from the artificial intelligence boom "should be structurally returned to all citizens." That is because, Mr Kim argued, the economic gains from AI are based at least partly on industrial infrastructure built b

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