The , at least among the progressive electorate. The one who was a member of the House of Representatives for a decade and a half and spent almost two decades as a senator from Vermont, aspired to be the Democratic trump card in the presidential elections from 2016 and 2020, but it did not arrive.
Their messages, however, do arrive. Recurrently, Donald Trump remembers him and insults him loudly for its more social approaches. Now, Bernie Sanders has made people talk with an opinion column .
Under the suggestive title of AI is a public resource. You should own halfnotes that “almost certainly the most transformative artificial intelligence technology in history.” Faced with what he sees as an almost absolute certainty, he asks himself not so much if the world will change, but rather “Who will own and control that future?; “Who will benefit from it and who will be harmed.”
“Let’s be clear,” he continues, convinced that the infinite resources of knowledge AI ““didn’t appear out of nowhere” in the minds of Sam Altman or Elon Muskbut is based “on our collective intelligence.” A knowledge that reaches all fields and that “for the most part, technology magnates have incorporated into their AI models without permission, without recognition and without compensation.”
“In other words, the creative work of millions of people —writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary citizens—has essentially been stolen by some of the richest in the world. It’s time for us to get it back,” he claims.
Wants that the people recover what is theirsat least in part. And for this reason “I will soon present the US Sovereign AI Investment Fund Act“, a potential law that “giveswould give the public direct participation in the largest AI companies of our country”.
How?, he asks. “I would create a sovereign investment fund through a 50% flat tax, not on profits from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other companies, but paid with something much more valuable: shares.
Bernie Sanders is aware that today the majority plays in favor of the Republicans, of Trump. So he keeps the conditional in his verbs. Of course, if he manages to get the norm approved “it would grant the public a direct role in determining the future of this technology“, which “would no longer be dictated by a handful of Big Tech oligarchs.”
