{"id":227305,"date":"2026-06-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/public-ownership-in-ai-trump-and-sanders-find-common-ground\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:10:27","slug":"public-ownership-in-ai-trump-and-sanders-find-common-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/public-ownership-in-ai-trump-and-sanders-find-common-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Public ownership in AI: Trump and Sanders find common ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-06-06\/public-ownership-in-ai-trump-sanders-find-common-ground\">Public ownership in AI: Trump and Sanders find common ground<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-06-06\/public-ownership-in-ai-trump-sanders-find-common-ground\">https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-06-06\/public-ownership-in-ai-trump-sanders-find-common-ground<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-06 17:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.latimes.com\">www.latimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Private Meeting Between Altman and Sanders<\/strong>: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman privately met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies, though Altman did not fully support Sanders&#8217; 50% ownership plan.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Emerging Political Alliances on AI Ownership<\/strong>: Despite differing political views, prominent figures like Sanders and Trump are exploring the idea of public ownership in AI companies, suggesting a growing populist support for public stake in AI profits.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Public and Political Concerns about AI Impact<\/strong>: There is increasing public anxiety and political debate regarding the societal and environmental impacts of AI expansion, including tensions around data centers and AI job threats.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Ongoing Policy Discussions<\/strong>: Altman&#8217;s Washington visit highlighted discussions on how to govern AI, with bipartisan efforts to establish federal regulatory frameworks and both private and government efforts to oversee AI developments.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Emerging Resistance and Demand for Regulation<\/strong>: There is mounting resistance against AI projects and growing calls for stringent regulations to manage AI&#8217;s future, driven by concerns over job displacement, ethical implications, and the environmental impact of data centers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public ownership in AI: Trump and Sanders find common ground https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2026-06-06\/public-ownership-in-ai-trump-sanders-find-common-ground Publish Date: 2026-06-06 17:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/38ad1c8\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5874x3084+0+416\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fff%2F78%2Fb88120874dcbb36d545addcd31ed%2F62f683aa14734a71b6120d1bafb918c7.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227305","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\/227305"}],"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=227305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227307,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227305\/revisions\/227307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}