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Sam Altman Meets Bernie Sanders in Private Hour-Long Session — Backs Public Equity in AI but Refuses Sanders' 50% Threshold
At Altman's request, he and Sen. Sanders met for nearly an hour this week after Sanders proposed a one-time 50% stock tax to put half of every major US AI company into a public sovereign wealth fund. Altman told Sanders he also wants the public to hold equity in AI firms but couldn't support the 50% figure that would give the public decision-making power; Sanders' team confirmed no agreement was reached. With Altman simultaneously courting the Trump administration on a federal equity stake, the ownership-of-AI debate has become a live cross-partisan negotiation that could reshape how frontier labs are structured.
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