Don’t Just Nationalize AI. Democratize It.

With Bernie Sanders’ recent of a plan in the works to convert 50 percent of the largest artificial intelligence firms into public ownership, has run several pieces on the question of what should be done about the predatory rise and ecologically uncertain future of this new technology. From different analytical angles, and praise the Sanders proposal and both call for the nationalization of AI firms. By contrast, has made the point that ownership does not equal control, and that an American…