{"id":224169,"date":"2026-06-01T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/bernie-sanders-ai-bill-would-give-public-half-of-the-ai-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T04:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:20:49","slug":"bernie-sanders-ai-bill-would-give-public-half-of-the-ai-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/bernie-sanders-ai-bill-would-give-public-half-of-the-ai-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders AI bill would give public half of the AI industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/bernie-sanders-nyt-op-ed-pubic-ai-ownership-argument\">Bernie Sanders AI bill would give public half of the AI industry<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/bernie-sanders-nyt-op-ed-pubic-ai-ownership-argument\">https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/bernie-sanders-nyt-op-ed-pubic-ai-ownership-argument<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 18:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mashable.com\">mashable.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are the key points regarding Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; proposal for an American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Proposal Introduction<\/strong>: Senator Bernie Sanders plans to introduce legislation proposing the creation of an American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund through the transfer of 50% equity from major AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to the government.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Fund Mechanism<\/strong>: The fund is to be created with equity rather than cash. It would hold voting shares and provide equal board representation for the government in each company it invests in.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Public Benefits<\/strong>: The fund&#8217;s revenue would be returned as cash payments to U.S. citizens. As it grows, the fund could be used to support public goods such as healthcare, education, and housing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Philosophical Basis<\/strong>: Sanders argues that AI has been built on the creativity, conversations, and labor of Americans without their consent or payment. Therefore, the profits generated should be shared collectively.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Industry Endorsements<\/strong>: High-profile figures in the AI field, such as OpenAI&#8217;s Sam Altman and Elon Musk, have previously proposed similar concepts, lending some support to the idea.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Unresolved Issues<\/strong>: The legislation is still in its formative stages, and unresolved questions include the fund&#8217;s profitability, scope of its application across different companies, and environmental considerations related to AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Comparison to Other Models<\/strong>: Sanders looks to Norway&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund and Alaska&#8217;s Permanent Fund Dividend for working models that could be adapted to the proposed AI fund.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While the underlying concept holds merit, many specifics of the plan need to be fleshed out before practical implementation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders AI bill would give public half of the AI industry https:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/bernie-sanders-nyt-op-ed-pubic-ai-ownership-argument Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/helios-i.mashable.com\/imagery\/articles\/0355z30QC7gqasu7KCVSfDr\/hero-image.fill.size_1200x675.v1780334833.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224171,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224169\/revisions\/224171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}