A language model that has read Marx, trained to divide things fairly.
We teach a model the history of economic fairness and reward answers that meet a named fairness standard, so wages, rent, care and aid can be shared more fairly.
Four citizens. A pool of 2,600. Five fair splits.
Who is fed, clothed and cared for is a question of social justice. Each split below is fair by its own rule, and the model is trained to name the rule it uses and show which citizens gain and which lose.
Fairness has more than one honest definition. So every answer the model gives must name the rule it was fair by.
Equality
Everyone gets the same. Test: the Gini is zero.
To each according to need
More to whoever needs more: from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs. Test: shares rise with stated need.
More for more work
More to whoever produces more. Test: shares rise with output or hours.
Protect the worst-off
Make the worst-off as well off as possible. Test: no other split gives them more.
Paid the value you add
No one is paid less than the value they add. Test: each wage covers that value.
Citizens in harmony
Nobody would rather have someone else's share. Test: check every pair; no one wants to swap.
One harvest. Five ways to share it.
Social credit pays each citizen by the value they produce; the other rules weigh need and work too. The darker the red, the bigger the slice. Two rows come straight from Marx: labour time and needs, the two stages of his Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875). Citizen 4, who cannot work, gets nothing under two of the five.
Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen!
From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs!
In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Instead of the conservative motto: “A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!” they ought to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword: “Abolition of the wages system!”
Barack Obama, Colgate University, 18 Sept 2026
There is another alignment problem though, and that is the misalignment between how this technology can be best used for society and the commercial imperatives of these companies.
AI is a tool. It's a machine. It's built to give you the illusion that it's not, but it is.
The foundation of that wealth was a social order and a system that had amazing universities and roads and fire protection and a judicial system that could enforce contracts.
Quoted from a public talk. Watch more: c-span.org
In every answer
- It names its fairness rule, so every claim can be checked
- It treats every citizen as an equal, whatever their gender or group
- Its split cannot change with a person's name, gender or group
- Its numbers add up: nothing appears and nothing disappears
In how it is made
- A program scores the reward, so flattering a judge wins nothing
- A balanced public-domain library, critics of Marx included, trained from scratch
- Inspired by Barack Obama at Colgate: “We’ve got a better option. It’s more fun not hating each other and trying to get along and working together.”