As automation and artificial intelligence increasingly perform tasks previously done by human workers, the state has a duty to ensure that the benefits of this transition are shared broadly across society and do not result in mass impoverishment or the concentration of wealth among those who own the automated systems.
Where automation displaces human labour at scale, the state shall implement a dignity income — a baseline level of financial security available to all citizens, sufficient to meet basic needs, funded through taxation of the productivity gains generated by automation itself. A National Automation Fund shall be established, into which a proportion of the profits generated by highly automated industries shall be directed, for the purpose of funding the dignity income and supporting retraining and new opportunities for displaced workers.
The transition to an automated economy shall be managed deliberately and humanely. No person shall be left destitute because a machine now does the work they once did.