Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies

Gift article if that helps: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-intell...

I think he knows this is too vague and unimplementable, he just wants to shift the conversation to more UBI-ish things.

A 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"

how much you wanna bet this gets traction right as the bubble is about to pop?

Yet 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.

Don'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