Convergence Fellowship Program
AGI Economic Policy Fellowship: Spring 2025
A 12-week intensive research program focused on designing economic policy research for the upcoming economic transformation driven by advanced AI systems.
Working in small teams across seven topics, fellows produced seminal research addressing critical policy questions on taxation, supply chains, legal rights, economic modeling, public utilities, and more.
This fellowship aims to fill a crucial gap in economic policy research and kickstart the international conversation on how societies should respond to the upcoming labor market transformations from the adoption of AGI systems.
Projects
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Funding Democracy in the Age of AI: Public Revenue in the New Economy
How should tax policy evolve to handle transformative AI?
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AI and Corporate Personhood - A Comparative Analysis
This research compares how the concept of legal personhood of corporations could be extended to AI systems.
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The Case for U.S. ABF Production: A Key Semiconductor Supply Chain Gap
Ajinomoto Build-Up Film (ABF) is a critical, proprietary material for advanced semiconductor packaging, currently produced almost entirely in East Asia and controlled by Japan’s Ajinomoto Group.
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Toward ASI Stability: A Treaty Framework for US–China Cooperation on Artificial Superintelligence
This project explores the idea of a phased, enforceable treaty between the U.S. and China to help prevent a dangerous race toward Artificial Superintelligence (ASI).
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Modelling Tax Base Distortions from AI-Induced Automation in US Economy
This paper investigates the potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven automation on the United States tax system.
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Public Utility Governance for Transformative AI
Our project investigates whether and how transformative AI (TAI) can and should be regulated as a public utility, exploring the conditions that justify such an approach (e.g., natural monopoly characteristics).