Dario Amodei's 'Policy on the AI Exponential' Essay: Anthropic Proposes Taxing Itself, UBI, and FAA-Style Pre-Release Testing for Frontier Models
On June 10, Amodei published a sweeping personal essay arguing the U.S. government should hold legal authority to block or reverse the release of frontier models that fail independent safety testing — an FAA-style certification regime — alongside a $350M commitment ($200M Economic Futures Research Fund plus a $150M national fellowship). Most strikingly, he proposed financing displaced workers via UBI funded by taxes on 'relevant companies' or a higher capital-gains rate, effectively suggesting AI labs tax themselves for the jobs their tools eliminate. For builders, this is the most concrete labor-displacement policy blueprint yet from a frontier lab CEO, and it reframes the safety debate around economic guardrails rather than just model behavior.
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