{"id":227070,"date":"2026-06-06T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-and-sam-altman-are-all-talking-about-public-ownership-in-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:15:13","slug":"donald-trump-bernie-sanders-and-sam-altman-are-all-talking-about-public-ownership-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-and-sam-altman-are-all-talking-about-public-ownership-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Sam Altman are all talking about public ownership in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/business\/2026\/06\/06\/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-and-sam-altman-are-all-talking-about-public-ownership-in-ai\/\">Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Sam Altman are all talking about public ownership in AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/business\/2026\/06\/06\/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-and-sam-altman-are-all-talking-about-public-ownership-in-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/business\/2026\/06\/06\/donald-trump-bernie-sanders-and-sam-altman-are-all-talking-about-public-ownership-in-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-06 00:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wsls.com\">www.wsls.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Public Ownership Plan<\/strong>: Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed that the public receive a 50% ownership stake in AI companies like OpenAI to create a public wealth fund.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Altman&#8217;s Receptiveness<\/strong>: Although not supporting Sanders&#8217; 50% threshold, Sam Altman of OpenAI expressed the desire to work collaboratively on broader public equity in AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Political Dynamics<\/strong>: The meeting reflects tension between AI companies and policymakers, and emerging political alliances where figures like Trump and Sanders advocate for public stake in AI.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Public Sentiment and Concerns<\/strong>: There is significant public unease about AI&#8217;s societal impact, environmental concerns, and its job market effects, especially among college students.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Legislative Developments<\/strong>: A bipartisan framework is emerging for federal AI regulation, and both Anthropic and the Trump administration are proposing measures for better governance of advanced AI systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Grassroots Opposition<\/strong>: Projects like data centers face local resistance due to concerns about infrastructure demands and environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Bipartisan Meetings<\/strong>: Altman&#8217;s sessions in Washington covered AI governance with Trump administration officials and leaders from both parties.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Election Spending Criticism<\/strong>: Sanders criticized the AI industry&#8217;s increasing role in election funding, which Altman did not commit to supporting during their discussion.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Sam Altman are all talking about public ownership in AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/graham-media-group\/image\/upload\/f_auto\/q_auto\/c_thumb,w_700\/v1\/media\/gmg\/7AKIW7ZLK5EL5CB637Y6EUNIBM.jpg?_a=DATAg1iuZAA0","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227070","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\/227070"}],"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=227070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227072,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227070\/revisions\/227072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}