arXiv:2505.18687econ.GNcs.AI2025-05被引 1

AI收益能否普惠,取决于政策如何捕获和分配自动化带来的红利。

When Do AI Gains Become Broadly Shareable? A Policy Threshold for AI-Driven Automation

  • 引入AI能力参数,分析技术进步如何通过政策转化为社会共享收益。
  • 33%公共捕获率可替代大幅提升AI能力,但全面国有化增益递减。
  • 适合关注AI政策、公共财政与公平分配的研究者和决策者。

AI驱动的自动化仅在技术进步具备可见性、持久性和公开可主张性时,才能产生广泛的社会效益。我们通过扩展标准任务自动化增长模型,引入一个提升可自动化任务生产率的AI能力参数,构建面向政策的应力测试框架。该研究不预测AI时间表或进行完整福利分析,而是识别决定AI收益是否能支持广泛转移的关键制度。基于美国数据校准后发现,仅靠能力提升不足以决定收益共享;公共捕获率、部署成本、自动化范围与市场结构共同决定何时收益可被共享。核心政策启示是:从低到中等公共捕获(33%)可替代显著的AI能力增长,而进一步推进至完全国有化带来的边际收益较小,尤其当部署或安全成本较高时。竞争政策也具分配效应:开放集中市场可提升公平与韧性,但若缺乏替代性公共主张机制,可能缩小租金池。跨国比较显示,高税收体系通过更强的有效收入征取降低所需AI能力阈值;新加坡与阿布扎比式公共资产模式则表明,政府可通过资产所有权和投资回报捕获收益,而非仅依赖税收。因此,本框架指明了政府当前可采取的行动杠杆,以使未来AI收益更易测量、主张与广泛分配。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

AI-driven automation generates broad-based social benefit only if technical gains become visible, durable, and publicly claimable. We develop a policy-facing stress test by extending a standard task-automation growth model with an AI capability parameter that raises productivity on automatable tasks while holding the set of tasks fixed. The exercise is intentionally limited: it is not a forecast of AI timelines or a full welfare analysis, but a way to identify which institutions determine whether AI rents can support broad transfers. Calibrated to U.S. quantities, the model shows that capability alone is not decisive. Public capture, deployment costs, automation scope, and market structure jointly determine when AI gains become shareable. The main policy lesson is that moving from low to moderate public capture (33\%) can substitute for substantial AI capability growth, while pushing capture further to full nationalization yields smaller gains, especially if deployment or safety costs are high. Competition policy also has distributional consequences: opening concentrated AI markets may improve fairness and resilience, but can reduce the rent pool unless alternative public-claim institutions are built. Cross-nationally, tax-heavy systems lower the needed AI capability threshold through stronger effective revenue collection, while Singaporean and Abu Dhabi-style public-asset models show that governments can also capture AI gains through ownership and investment returns rather than taxes alone. Our framework therefore identifies which levers governments can act on now to make future AI gains easier to measure, claim, and distribute broadly.

AI政策收益分配公共捕获自动化

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