Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Sam Altman are all talking about public ownership in AI
- Jun 9
- 1 min read
AP — It was perhaps a surprising private overture from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The meeting between the two had come just after the Vermont senator announced a plan for the public to take a 50% ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI, using their stock to create a public wealth fund that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths.
Altman told Sanders that he, too, wants the public to have equity in AI companies. Though the CEO said he couldn’t support Sanders’ threshold of 50%, he nonetheless wanted to work with him to advocate for the general idea
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