By Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper <\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) – The Trump administration and AI giant Anthropic have not discussed the \u200cgovernment taking stakes in the firm, a source familiar with \u200cthe matter said on Thursday. <\/p>\n
The White House and the Commerce Department did not immediately \u200brespond to requests for comment. Anthropic declined to comment. <\/p>\n
The comment comes after the Financial Times reported earlier on Thursday that OpenAI has discussed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake, raising questions about whether other \u200cAI firms are having \u2060such discussions. <\/p>\n
The companies are facing scrutiny in Washington over the likely misuse of advanced models and whether Americans \u2060would benefit from the industry’s massive valuations. <\/p>\n
The Commerce Department in June lifted export controls on two of Anthropic’s most advanced models imposed weeks earlier \u200bamid concerns \u200bthe powerful AI tools did \u200bnot have adequate safeguards to \u200cprevent misuse. <\/p>\n
Washington has stepped up oversight of new model releases to identify potential threats amid concerns that advanced AI models could be misused by military intelligence in China, Russia or other countries of concern. Still, submission of new models for review is voluntary. <\/p>\n
Last month, President Donald \u200cTrump said he was exploring options \u200bto give the public a stake in \u200bleading AI companies, in response \u200bto concerns that individual Americans will not share \u200cin the sector’s expected profits. <\/p>\n
U.S. Senator \u200bBernie Sanders, a \u200bVermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, has proposed using the tax system to capture a share of AI-driven wealth, with large \u200bfirms giving the government \u200ca 50% ownership stake and board representation. <\/p>\n
(Reporting by Karen Freifeld \u200band Alexandra Alper; Additional reporting by Courtney Rozen; Editing \u200bby Franklin Paul and Daniel Wallis) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) – The Trump administration and AI giant Anthropic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,4868,13781,9307,33621],"class_list":["post-93707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-commerce-department","tag-stake","tag-the-government","tag-the-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707","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=93707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}