signtheact.datareserve.org

You trained for a career.
Your career trained an AI.

Guess which one has a job.

AI is reshaping the job market faster than any institution is responding. Creative, writing, coding, and analytic roles are being impacted first, and some billionaires are advocating to just write us a check. We think you deserve more than a handout. You deserve ownership in the new economy driven by AI because you've contributed to it.

The Proposal

If AI learns from you, it owes you.

Right now, your data flows to platforms and AI models for free. Every assignment you upload, every search you run, every route you drive. It all trains systems worth trillions. But, you don't see a dime. Then you pay a subscription to access the product your data helped build.

The Data Savings Act changes that. It establishes that your data is a financial asset you own, held in a personal Data Savings Account that compounds over time. Think of it like a pension for the future. The digital footprint you leave contributes both to AI's future and your own financial future.

This isn't anti-AI. It's pro-participation. Every AI system on Earth requires continuous streams of human-generated data to function. People aren't a problem to be subsidized. People are the asset AI is built on. The Act ensures everyone who contributes enjoys the upside.

Why not UBI?

The mainstream answer is Universal Basic Income. Here's why we disagree.

The Subsidy Path

UBI

"Tax the rich and send everyone a check." It's a compassionate idea built on a defeatist premise: that human economic contribution is obsolete.

It makes you a recipient. It says your value ended. The government will take care of it from here.

The Ownership Path

Data Savings

Your data has real economic value. The Act turns that value into a compounding asset in an account you control, not a check that someone else decides to send.

It makes you an owner. It says your contribution is ongoing, growing, and yours.

From signature to statute

How a name on a list becomes federal law.

Step 01

You sign.

Your name enters the petition on the public record.

Step 02

Your org joins.

Student organizations co-sign and circulate the petition.

Step 03

The Act is delivered.

July 4, 2026. The petition is delivered to Congress in person.

Step 04

The economy reopens.

Your data becomes a financial asset you own.

Sign the Declaration

Your name goes to Congress this July.

We're delivering the petition in person. We want real student voices being heard instead of consultants and lobbyists. You have the most to gain, or lose, by what policymakers do.

Share the petition with your network

"I claim my right to own the data I produce. If AI profits from my contribution, that contribution is an asset, and it's mine. Add my name to the public record in support of the Data Savings Act."

We practice what we preach. Your data is used only for this campaign. We don't sell it, share it, or train AI on it.

For Student Organizations

Get your org involved.

Here is how you can take action:

Co-sign as an org

Add your name to the petition and share it with your members. Get listed as an official backer.

Host an info table

We send the materials: flyers, QR codes, talking points. You pick the event.

Link in your newsletter

One URL in your next send: SignTheAct.DataReserve.org

Become a co-sponsor

Co-sponsors get listed as official backers, early access to the policy framework, and an invitation to the July listening session.

Open for signature until July 4, 2026.

Delivered to Congress in person. Your name on the record.

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