I have argued in the past that the benefit of technologies like AI quite properly belong to everyone because they are the product of a culture as a whole, and not narrowly defined enterprises within that culture. For example, the vast resources we spend on education and literacy are what make AI possible in the first place. This idea is explored in this article. "While economic redistribution might be essential to ensure widespread prosperity in a world with advanced AI systems, we argue that focusing on predistribution — proactively ensuring widespread opportunity to benefit from AI — can reduce the likelihood that AI exacerbates inequality in the first place." They get at this via the concept of the Windfall Clause whereby if an AI company finds itself reaping an unexpected benefit, it has an obligation to share this benefit with society. I think they're on the right track here.
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