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Regrow forests.
Native seed systems, fire recovery, invasive species management and patient stewardship.
A higher dream for the age of AI
One million jobs.Funded by AI.Restoring Earth.
Catalyst capital from AI can create opportunities for people to do work that makes them and the Earth more alive.
1 million
Our ambitionPeople thriving in paid work that brings life back to Earth.
01The reversal
For three centuries, progress gave us more power to take.
More energy. More land. More life converted into wealth.
Now another revolution is beginning.
What will we do with the abundance?
The industrial direction
Nature→Resources→Products→Capital
The regenerative direction
Intelligence→Abundance→Human work→Living systems
This time, technology could multiply our power to restore.
02Two futures are arriving together
A changing world of work. A living world in need of care.
Machines are learning to do more of our work.
The living world is waiting for more of our care.
AI is reshaping tasks and careers. Its economic effects are still unfolding.02
Meanwhile, there are forests to regrow, rivers to revive, soils to restore. These futures can meet in one undertaking.
Let technological abundance open new possibilities for people and the living world.
03A historical precedent
People needed work.
The land needed healing.
In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps offered people paid opportunities to plant trees, control erosion and care for public lands.01
Forests grew. Parks endured.
Generations later, we still walk through the world they helped restore.
1933
Their work became
living infrastructure.
04The 21st-century ambition
Do it again.At planetary scale.
1,000,000
Paid regeneration jobs
Skilled work. Fair pay. Places worth belonging to.
A chance to grow, alongside the life returning around you.
Our proposed ambition. The first pilots are the beginning.
05The work is everywhere
The job description:
make this place more alive.
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Bring rivers back.
Repair watersheds and floodplains. Restore fish passage. Let aquatic life return.
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Bring wildlife home.
Support qualified rescue and rehabilitation teams. Rebuild habitat and reconnect migration corridors.
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Rebuild wetlands.
Restore natural water flows, recover marshes and renew habitat.
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Restore living soil.
Rebuild fertility, biodiversity and water retention, alongside the people who work the land.
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Let coastlines live.
Restore mangroves, dunes, reefs and living shorelines with local expertise.
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06The Regeneration Dividend
The machines create abundance.
We decide what abundance is for.
A dividend for
the living world.
Our proposal: direct a committed share of the value created by AI into opportunities for people to earn a living through work that restores nature. Technology companies, organizations benefiting from automation and philanthropy can help finance the work.
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Commit the abundance.
Secure long-term contributions from those creating and benefiting from AI-generated value.
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Fund the places.
Back locally led restoration with ecological expertise, community consent and patient capital.
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Create opportunities.
Create pathways into work people can choose, grow in and shape. Experienced stewards lead local teams, with paid apprenticeships, fair pay and worker protections.
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Measure what returns.
Track ecosystem health and livelihoods against a real baseline. Publish the results. Scale what works.
The dividend is a proposed financing model. Its structure, contribution levels and first funding commitments remain to be developed.
07Why now
The pieces exist.
Bring them together.
Research capital for the AI transition. Restoration goals at continental scale. Projects connecting ecological recovery and livelihoods.
$200M
The transition has a research fund.
Anthropic’s Economic Futures Research Fund includes AI-sector dividends and job pilots inspired by the Civilian Conservation Corps in its research agenda.02
Anthropic research agenda20%
Europe has a restoration goal.
EU law calls for restoration measures covering at least 20% of its land and sea areas by 2030.03
European Commission3.2M+
Restoration is creating work.
Terraformation reports millions of mangroves planted with ReDAW in Ghana, alongside hundreds of full- and part-time jobs.04
Keta Lagoon projectIndependent examples. No affiliation, endorsement or funding commitment to The Regeneration is implied.
The opportunity is to turn these beginnings into an enduring engine for planetary regeneration.
08Our unfinished work
Every generation inherits unfinished work.
Ours inherits extraordinary technological power and a planet bearing the scars of centuries of extraction.
Our task is to makeone repair the other.
09The generational promise
Leave the planet
more alive
than we found it.
A century from now, let someone walk beneath trees that do not exist today. Let them swim in rivers we brought back to life.
Let them watch an eagle cross a valley our generation chose to protect. Let them inherit abundance in its oldest meaning: a world alive around them.
And let them say of us:
They inherited the power to take more.They chose to give life back.
Founder / The Regeneration
Diana Tsai
Diana Tsai is a repeat founder who has spent her career building new forms of economic opportunity. She has raised $10 million to build agentic infrastructure that has helped nearly one million AI-displaced workers find jobs faster, and created $200 million in job opportunities for veterans. She was named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Now she is building The Regeneration: a mission to turn the abundance created by AI into catalyst capital for one million opportunities to do work that makes people and the Earth more alive.
The first chapter begins with a place.
Build the first pilots.
One landscape. Real paid work. A credible baseline. Long-term stewardship.
Bring the capital, the ecological experience or the research capacity to help make the first demonstration real.
Fund the work.
For AI companies, automation beneficiaries and philanthropic partners.
Bring a landscape.
For restoration organizations, conservation corps and community land stewards.
Build the evidence.
For researchers in ecology, work, economic transition and human flourishing.
Start a founding conversation
An initiative in formation. We are seeking the first partners. The one-million-job ambition is a goal, not an operating program or a claim of secured funding.
The evidence, the distinctions, the principles
This is a proposal for a new initiative. Historical achievements and external programs are cited as relevant precedents. The one-million-job ambition, Regeneration Dividend and pilot design describe work to be built.
The historical precedent
National Park Service · The CCC Years: 1933–1940The National Park Service records more than three million enrollees between 1933 and 1942, three billion trees planted, and 20 million acres protected from soil erosion. These are historical program totals, not outcomes from The Regeneration. The original program also operated within discriminatory and segregated institutions.
AI and economic transition
Anthropic · Economic Futures Research Fund agenda · July 22, 2026Anthropic announced a $200 million global research fund. Its agenda includes AI-sector dividends and guaranteed-job pilots in public-good roles inspired by the CCC. This is an external research opportunity, not funding secured by The Regeneration. The timing and distribution of AI’s economic gains remain uncertain.
Restoration measures at scale
European Commission · Nature Restoration RegulationThe regulation sets a framework for restoration measures covering at least 20% of the EU’s land and sea areas by 2030. This refers to the area covered by restoration measures, not a claim that all those ecosystems will be fully restored by that date.
Restoration and livelihoods
Terraformation · Ghana Forestry Commission and TerraformationTerraformation reports more than 3.2 million mangroves planted with implementation partner ReDAW at Keta Lagoon and hundreds of full- and part-time jobs. Planting totals are not equivalent to verified long-term ecosystem recovery. Figures are reported by the project organization.
Tools for ecological observation
Microsoft · Protecting and preserving ecosystemsMicrosoft describes the use of environmental data, the Planetary Computer and AI-supported ecosystem monitoring. These illustrate tools relevant to the proposed model; they do not establish an affiliation with The Regeneration.
How the work would earn its name.
Pilots would be voluntary, locally led and designed with Indigenous peoples and local communities wherever their lands, rights or knowledge are involved. They would respect tenure and consent, pay fairly, provide training and worker protection, and fund long-term care. Ecological assessment would count survival, habitat quality and recovery over time. Restoration would be additional to reducing technology’s own environmental footprint. Research would test costs, job quality, participant choice and ecological outcomes without assuming that every disrupted worker wants or can undertake field work.
Sources checked September 12, 2026. All landscape patterns on this page are decorative illustrations, not maps or monitoring data.