The AI Futures Project, a non-profit initiative, outlined a proposal for a U.S. government citizen’s dividend following AI-induced unemployment. In its AI 2040 Plan A, the non-profit says that by 2033, AI-induced unemployment would rise due to millions of AI agents boosting productivity. The plan involves distributing the “majority of compute and robot permit fees as a Citizen’s Dividend… to all American adults,” starting at $45,000 per person in 2032, climbing to $1 million per person by 2035 and $10 million by 2040. The plan also predicts AI reaching a labor share of 85% by 2035 and the U.S. government “distributing an average of $1,200 per person per year to the rest of the world’s adult population” of around 4 billion people, excluding China. On Thursday, short-seller James Chanos weighed in on X, saying, “At about the same time SPCX’s valuation exceeds global GDP. Seems reasonable,” referencing SpaceX. This follows SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s statement that the company would be worth more than the entire planet in the future.