President Donald Trump said he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government \u201cpartnership\u201d that would allow the American people to profit in their success.<\/p>\n
The president said Friday that the program, which could include sending company dividends to Americans, would help secure buy-in from a public that remains skeptical about long-term disruptions \u2014 including to the labor market \u2014 of the technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a concept out there, there\u2019s so much money and it\u2019s so big that there are concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner with the companies,\u201d Trump told reporters en route to an unrelated event in Wisconsin. \u201cI have spoken to all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re talking about it where the American people can benefit from the success of AI. And by doing that, they\u2019re going to like it better,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Trump said he was potentially meeting with \u201call the big ones\u201d at the White House next week, though he declined to name specific companies.<\/p>\n
The policy concept, first reported by NOTUS<\/a>, has been floated by OpenAI<\/a>, which issued a policy paper backing a public wealth fund, and broadly discussed by Anthropic<\/a> and billionaire Elon Musk,<\/a> who runs xAI. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), recently proposed a bill that would create a 50 percent government ownership in AI companies.<\/p>\n Though the ideas vary, the goal would be to give Americans an equity stake in AI companies to offset potentially historic disruptions from AI advancements to the job market and economy \u2014 though skeptics point to challenges in a government regulating an industry in which it is also invests.<\/p>\n Both OpenAI and Anthropic are bearing down on massive IPOs, valued at over $1 trillion each.<\/p>\n \u201cAs far as economics is concerned, we have certain things that aren\u2019t that far apart. People are surprised,\u201d Trump said when asked about Sanders\u2019 support for an AI profit-sharing plan.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s former AI czar, David Sacks, an anti-regulation figure who recently played an influential role in temporarily halting the White House\u2019s efforts to address increased cybersecurity risks from advanced AI models, came out against the idea of AI equity stakes Friday, calling it an acceleration of \u201cthe corporate-government fusion we\u2019re already sliding toward.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cConservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI \u2014 a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior,\u201d Sacks wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,6409,1254,36266,1591,36265,4862],"class_list":["post-63937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-david-sacks","tag-federal-government","tag-next-week","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-specific-companies","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}