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There’s this strange latent implication that the public doesn’t benefit from something it doesn’t own

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill to have the public take a 50% ownership stake in the country's biggest AI companies. The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would have the government tax AI companies, take 50% of the stock, and put it under public control.

“A.I. is being built on a public resource far more valuable than oil: the accumulated knowledge, creativity and labor of mankind.” Nobody owns this knowledge, and that knowledge isn’t diminished for being known (by machines) Everything is built by drawing on this same well of public knowledge

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Not to say I do or do not agree with a sovereign wealth fund. I don’t think I agree with voting shares (particularly now for reasons left to the reader to imagine)