The Criticisms of Bernie’s AI Wealth Fund Idea Don’t Hold Up

Earlier this month, the published a from Bernie Sanders about his proposal to require AI providers to hand over 50 percent of their stock to a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) administered by the government. In the piece, Sanders gives three main rationales for this policy:New York Timespiece Sanders subsequently released legislation toward this end, which you can read .here I have some pedantic quibbles with the way this is described. Within the usual taxonomies of public ownership, what’s really…