Top presidential policy aide floats 'national dividends' to share AI profits with public

“The top presidential aide for economic policy has proposed the country should come up with a national dividend policy that returns the excess tax revenue generated by Korea's booming artificial intelligence (AI)-related industries to the public. “The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the outcome of individual companies alone, but are built on the industrial foundation that the entire nation has accumulated over the past half-century,” Kim Yong-beom, presidential chief of staff for policy, wrote on Facebook Monday. His remarks come as public debate grows over how and whether companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK hynix should share their massive operating profits generated by soaring global demand for AI-related products, including high-performance memory chips. While Samsung's labor unions are threatening a strike as they are demanding massive performance-based bonuses similar to what SK hynix promised to its workers, there have been calls similar to Kim's idea on an online anonymous forum that outsized gains of such big companies should be shared with the public on

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