Data Leverage Digital Garden

• AI Dividends Without Taxing Compute or State Ownership: A Presumptive Commons-Rent Tax Based on Capability Measurement and Data Attribution
  2026-06-07

  Data dividends based on capability measurement, data provenance, and AI auditing.

• The AI "Evaluation Crisis" Is an Opportunity to Get Data Flow Right
  2026-04-30

  Why the AI evaluation crisis could force a reckoning on dataset provenance, attribution, and consent.

• Attestation across the AI Supply Chain
  2026-04-08

  A proposal for interoperable attestation objects that connect training data, evaluation labor, and AI-generated outputs across the AI supply chain.

Short notes built around one claim I want to make precisely.

• August 2026 notes on stubs
  2026-08-03

  Longer focus posts I want to write or find

• Using AI kind of involves interacting with other people
  2026-07-08

  A focused note on generative AI use as mediated interaction with upstream human contributors.

• Scoping AI dividend policies
  2026-06-10

  Independent AI auditors can help determine which firms and models should fall within AI-targeted economic policies.

Responses to a paper, event, or claim while it is still live.

• Data labeling work should be dignified, not dismissed
  2026-06-20

  Reacting to a story about Meta giving tech workers data labeling tasks.

• "People First" Policy Ideas that Complement Each Other (through better data flow)
  2026-04-06

  Reacting to a wide-ranging set of policy ideas from OpenAI.

• Two natural allies of a "Data Transparency" agenda: capabilities forecasters and social simulators
  2026-03-09

  Making an "if you like X, you might want to support Y" argument for data-focused policy

• How I am publishing right now
  2026-05-28

  A rough map of my current local Markdown to Leaflet, Substack, and social-post workflow.

• April 2026 small points
  2026-04-28

  A running collection of short ideas about sovereign AI, augmentation, evaluation labor, data pipelines, and quasi-enclosure.