Bernie Sanders Proposes One-Time 50% AI Share Tax

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For AI practitioners, a proposal that converts corporate equity into state-held shares would alter governance incentives, investor exits, and licensing dynamics. According to Reason summarizing a New York Times op-ed, Senator Bernie Sanders wrote that AI is “built on our collective intelligence” and proposed a one-time 50 percent tax on the largest AI companies, payable in shares to a government-run sovereign wealth fund that would hold voting shares, board representation, and the power to “block decisions”. Reason’s column criticizes the idea, calling it “the worst idea Bernie Sanders has ever had.”