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Rather than forecasting AI's economic impacts or prescribing optimal policies, we provide a framework for analyzing how different policy responses shape distributional outcomes under AI-driven economic change.\n\n## Research Questions\n\n- How do economic policies (taxes, transfers, UBI proposals) mediate AI's impact on income, consumption, and wealth distribution?\n- How would current policies vs. alternatives (UBI, expanded safety nets, capital taxation) differentially shape distributional outcomes under AI scenarios?\n- What are the inequality, poverty, and work incentive effects of different policy responses to AI economic shocks?\n- How do these mediation effects vary across regions, demographics, and AI trajectories?\n\n## Key Features\n\nThis site includes:\n\n1. **Research Overview**: The challenge, our approach, and why this matters\n2. **Relevant Research**: Summary of academic work on AI economics, labor impacts, inequality, and microsimulation\n3. **Policy Scenarios**: Different policy designs to evaluate (current policy, UBI, safety net expansion, capital taxation, hybrid approaches)\n4. **Technical Requirements**: What's needed to conduct this research (scenario modeling, data, computational infrastructure, validation)\n5. **Potential Stakeholders**: Organizations that might be interested in supporting or collaborating on this work\n\n## Geographic Scope\n\nWhile initial work would focus on the United States using [PolicyEngine-US](https://policyengine.org/us), this research framework could be expanded to:\n\n- **United Kingdom** ([PolicyEngine-UK](https://policyengine.org/uk)) - fully operational\n- **Canada** ([PolicyEngine-Canada](https://policyengine.org/ca)) - partially developed\n- Other countries where PolicyEngine models are available\n\nCross-country comparisons would provide valuable insights into how different tax-benefit systems respond to AI-driven economic change.\n\n## Development\n\n### Prerequisites\n\n- Node.js \u003e= 22.0.0\n- npm\n\n### Installation\n\n```bash\nmake install\n```\n\nOr:\n\n```bash\nnpm ci\n```\n\n### Running the Development Server\n\n```bash\nmake debug\n```\n\nOr:\n\n```bash\nnpm start\n```\n\nThe site will be available at `http://localhost:3000`.\n\n### Building for Production\n\n```bash\nmake build\n```\n\nOr:\n\n```bash\nnpm run build\n```\n\n### Testing\n\n```bash\nmake test\n```\n\nOr:\n\n```bash\nnpm test\n```\n\n### Code Formatting\n\nBefore committing, always format your code:\n\n```bash\nmake format\n```\n\nOr:\n\n```bash\nnpm run lint -- --fix \u0026\u0026 npx prettier --write .\n```\n\n## Project Structure\n\n```\nai-growth-research/\n├── public/\n│   └── index.html\n├── src/\n│   ├── components/\n│   │   ├── Hero.js              # Landing section\n│   │   ├── Hero.css\n│   │   ├── Overview.js          # Research overview\n│   │   ├── Research.js          # Research summary\n│   │   ├── PolicyScenarios.js   # Policy scenarios\n│   │   ├── TechnicalRequirements.js\n│   │   ├── Stakeholders.js      # Organizations\n│   │   ├── Footer.js\n│   │   └── Footer.css\n│   ├── App.js                   # Main app component\n│   ├── App.css\n│   ├── index.js                 # Entry point\n│   └── index.css\n├── package.json\n├── Makefile\n└── README.md\n```\n\n## Live Site\n\n**https://policyengine.github.io/ai-growth-research/**\n\nThe site automatically deploys to GitHub Pages on every push to `main`.\n\n## Contributing\n\nThis is a PolicyEngine project. Please follow the guidelines in [CLAUDE.md](../CLAUDE.md) for development practices:\n\n1. Use functional React components with hooks\n2. Run `make format` before committing\n3. Test your changes with `npm test`\n4. Ensure linting passes with `npm run lint -- --max-warnings=0`\n\n## Contact\n\nInterested in collaborating on this research?\n\n- Email: [hello@policyengine.org](mailto:hello@policyengine.org)\n- Website: [https://policyengine.org](https://policyengine.org)\n- GitHub: [https://github.com/PolicyEngine](https://github.com/PolicyEngine)\n\n## License\n\nAGPL-3.0\n\n## About PolicyEngine\n\nPolicyEngine is a nonprofit building open-source tax-benefit microsimulation models to make public policy more transparent, accessible, and impactful.\n","funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2FPolicyEngine%2Fai-inequality","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2FPolicyEngine%2Fai-inequality","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2FPolicyEngine%2Fai-inequality/lists"}