AI replacing your job might not be the biggest thing you should be worried about.
Because a job was never just a paycheck.
For many people, work gives them purpose, structure and a sense that they’re contributing to something.
Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” has warned that even if AI creates enough abundance to support people financially, money alone may not replace what people lose when they stop participating in the economy.
But there’s another side to this.
As AI replaces more human work, the value of that work doesn’t disappear. It moves somewhere else.
And if ownership of AI remains concentrated, much of that value could flow to the companies and billionaires that already own the technology.
Ordinary people risk losing both their income and their share of the economic value they helped create.
That’s the part we believe is fundamentally unfair.
At Action Model, we’re building a different model: a community-owned AI ecosystem where the people helping train, build and improve AI can earn ownership based on the value they contribute.
Because if AI is going to create enormous wealth by learning from humans and automating human work...humans should have a stake in the upside.