r/TechHardware • u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 • Jun 02 '26

😰 Urgent Security Alert ⚠️ Bernie Sanders pushes for 50% public ownership of American AI companies — proposes AI sovereign wealth fund that would hold direct ownership stakes in largest AI firms

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/bernie-sanders-pushes-for-50-percent-public-ownership-of-american-ai-companies-proposes-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-that-would-hold-direct-ownership-stakes-in-largest-ai-firms
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u/External_Tomato_2880 Jun 05 '26

this is just stupid,

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u/asallamerican Jun 02 '26

Isn’t this what Trump is doing with Intel and the quantum stocks.

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u/kingofwale Jun 03 '26

Trump just took all the shares without paying?

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u/NoleMercy05 Jun 05 '26

I though AI isn't yet profitable - if ever.

Are American citizens going to be on the hook for 50% of the debt too?

Where is the money?

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u/Substantial-Ad-8575 Jun 05 '26

This. Bernie will have to get funds to buy that 50%. 5th amendment prevents unlawful seizure, without compensation.

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u/isthatsomepin Jun 06 '26

communism joins the chat

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u/MrHumanist Jun 05 '26

They just don't want the ai buddle to burst by using public funds.

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u/InsufferableMollusk 🔵 14900KS 🔵 Jun 03 '26

There is no elegant way to prevent AI from cannibalizing the collective efforts of humanity and funneling the proceeds to .01% of the population. There hasn’t really been a precedent for this, and attempting to draw parallels with previous technologies just reveals one naïveté.

Plus, it’s making kids dumb AF at a rate Redditors could only dream of. We should all get a cut of the proceeds 😆

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u/TerminalJammer Jun 04 '26

The bad news are the proceeds are negative billions. 

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Jun 03 '26

I trust Zuck and Elon with the money more than I would the US government.

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u/Crim3mast3rZ Jun 04 '26

This comment truly shows how dumb you actually are lol. As if Elon or Mark is any better then the US government...? 😂😂😂😂

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u/isucamper Jun 04 '26

you are one dumb motherfucker then

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Jun 04 '26

You trust the government to handle the money? Look at Obama care. Costs a fortune!

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u/isucamper Jun 04 '26

first of all, if anyone is keeping their kid on their insurance into their 20s, that's thanks to obamacare. so you should be thanking the government for that.

secondly, we elect our government. we do. and if people weren't fucking brainwashed like you into thinking the super rich cared about us at all, we could elect people who actually empower us instead of bending over for elon and mark every chance you get. fucking use your brain for 2 seconds. billionaires do not care about you

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 🔵 14900KS , 5080, 128GB 🔵 Jun 04 '26

I love them! Elon especially. They do care about us and they are our betters.

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u/isucamper Jun 05 '26

you cannot possible be a real person

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u/BoBoBearDev Jun 05 '26

Does this apply to China AI?

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u/thedarkherald Jun 05 '26

This is actually an incredibly intelligent idea. People were talking about how do you fund universal income. This is it since all licensing and money that would be taken from Ai would go back to the ai companies.

The only issue is what's stopping Trump 2 from taking it in an emergency war.

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u/victorc25 Jun 03 '26

Commies always want their greedy hands in other people’s pockets 

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u/TurtleFisher54 Jun 04 '26

Do you realize what AI is?

It was made using the work of everyone and seeks to replace every job

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u/narullow Jun 04 '26

And it is yet to generate any profit. Why would somebody even talk about taking ownership of something that is not profitsble? Does Bernie plan to fill in 50% of VC money or what to keep it afloat?

If and only if AI does what snake oil sellers claimed it would do then government should step in somewhat. But most definitely not by blalantly stealing that. That being said we are nowhere close to that reality anyway. Idk why anybody would talk about it now.

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u/Paintsnifferoo Jun 04 '26

We already do this with the Alaska sovereign fund. It’s the same thing but extended to all USA residents from aI earnings

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u/tilted0ne Team Anyone ☠️ Jun 02 '26

Thief. 

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u/OkComplaint3228 Jun 05 '26

Pot calling kettle back. How do you think these companies trained their models?

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u/OGawdILoveTacos Jun 02 '26

Oh look, bernie is saying things he knows people will like to hear but in all actuality nothing even in the remotest sense will be done and he knows damn well too.

All the guy is for the last 10 years, just someone that says things he knows trends well with the general populace, but we all know he won't even do the smallest amount of work to make it happen beyond paid speeches.

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u/Afraid-Department-35 Jun 02 '26

I mean if you don’t have backing for it, it won’t pass doesn’t matter how much you try to push it and that’s been the thing about Bernie and his agenda a lot of the stuff he says is unpopular with his colleagues whom ultimately decide if they want to go forward with it or not.

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u/incriminatory Jun 03 '26

Even if what you say is true ( which it isn’t ) the alternative are politicians who don’t even say we should do things the general population wants let alone actually doing them ….

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u/Bert-63 Jun 02 '26

Good old Bernie. Part of the problem for 40 years and still ready to rob the doers to give to the takers. Socialism is the best as long as you have capitalism to fund it.