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Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
- postflopclarity 4mo agoDon't be a ridiculous socialist, clearly 50% is too much. The true capitalists believe that the USG should only own * 10% of Intel * 15% vig of Nvidia chip sales to China * largest shareholder in several materials and mining companies * option for 8% of Westinghouse * "Golden Share" of U.S. Steel /s
- damnitbuilds 4mo agoI think you'll find the USG is only holding those shares temporarily and they will be transferred to ... someone ... just before January 20th, 2029.
- daveshistory 4mo agoI understand the cynicism but there isn't going to be a plausible legal route to do that. No, all these corporate stakes are just going to hang on bizarrely in the government until someone sells them off again. Although, I guess, you can't really just dump a 10% stake in Intel overnight without causing problems, can you. Geez what a mess.
- postflopclarity 4mo ago[dead]
- red-iron-pine 4mo agosince when has "plausible legal route" meant anything in the past 12 months?
- damnitbuilds 4mo agoSomeone could make a decent amount by buying a short the day before the dump...
- daveshistory 4mo agoEspecially if "someone" knew it was coming, yeah.
- tqi 4mo agoI think people are opposed to all of these.
- richwater 4mo agoYet another completely un-implementable, insane take from someone who has accomplished very little in the way of legislation. I mean seriously? We're going to start to seize companies now? What even is an "AI" company? Google trains their own model? Are we going to seize Google? Give me a break. This is real life slop and would never get published if it weren't for the author's name.
- daveshistory 4mo agoUS government already has a minority stake in Intel. Seems to be the season for this sort of thing. You're right, though. New York Times printing calls for the nationalization of "all the big companies..."
- segfaultpoet 4mo ago[dead]
- postflopclarity 4mo ago> We're going to start to seize companies now? already started by the current administration?
- tmvphil 4mo agoA big 50% transfer of specific companies is probably too aggressive and arbitrary, but it's time to start thinking about how public ownership can work. Perhaps something like, "every year, companies over some size threshold must dilute their shares by 1% and give the new shares to the USG"
- whalabi 4mo agoHis argument, whether you accept it or not, is that AI was built with humanity's stolen knowledge for the most part, which is somewhat accurate. At least, models were trained on vast quantities of information produced by humans, much of it copyrighted, without consent or compensation. "Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of ‘pirated’ books to train AI models, authors claim" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/10/mark-zuckerberg-meta-books-ai-models-sarah-silverman https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/10/mark-zuck...
- red-iron-pine 4mo agohow much you wanna bet this gets traction right as the bubble is about to pop?
- sometimelurker 4mo agoI think he knows this is too vague and unimplementable, he just wants to shift the conversation to more UBI-ish things.
- whalabi 4mo agoGift article if that helps: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-intelligence-bernie-sanders.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nFA.xPiF.4PSJM0rCJxA5&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-intell...