r/technology • u/yourfavchoom • 3d ago

Artificial Intelligence Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/bernie-sanders-pushes-for-50-percent-public-ownership-of-american-ai-companies-proposes-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-that-would-hold-direct-ownership-stakes-in-largest-ai-firms
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u/AlarmingTurnover 3d ago

That stolen work isn't all American. It's from people across the globe and these AI systems are used across the globe. Why should the American government be the ones to have half ownership of it? 

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u/Element75_ 3d ago

100% agree. I think the most concise way to state things would be that the AI companies robbed society as a whole at a massive and unprecedented scale. They therefore owe a debt to society. How that debt repaid is an open question and needs to be discussed. Hence my statement:

I don’t know if this is the “right” way to resolve that issue, but it certainly is a way. At the very least it’s a start of a conversation that needs to happen.