Tripp Mickle

Claude, this is Senator Bernie Sanders.

He's interacting and doing interviews with Claude, the anthropic system.

He's really trying to immerse himself in this technology and where it's going.

And he's made two proposals.

One of which is a moratorium on artificial intelligence.

And when I spoke to Bernie Sanders and asked him about this moratorium, which probably doesn't have a real shot of becoming law,

He said one of the things that's kind of shocking to him is that given that AI and robotics are going to impact every man, woman and child in the country, you would think that Congress would be talking about this.

And yet the conversations about artificial intelligence aren't really happening on Capitol Hill.

And so that's part of the reason that he's throwing his weight around and trying to introduce legislation that really sparks conversation.

And the second proposal may be even more radical than the first.

And that is that the United States should take a 50% ownership stake in all of the biggest artificial intelligence companies as they go public.

So when Anthropic and OpenAI have their IPOs later this year, as they've said they plan to do, he said that the U.S.

should get a 50 percent share of that.

It should go in a AI sovereign wealth fund and that the entire country should share the profits and wealth of those companies as they continue to grow and develop.

Yeah, it's a big radical leap from where the president is at the moment.

It was largely met with shock and Silicon Valley and ridicule from people who think it's basically unacceptable socialism.

The industry, at the same time these conversations are happening, seems to be recognizing that it has a big problem with the American public at the moment, that it's got a trust deficit.

I mean, that's pretty clear based on the polling data that's been coming out, based on the rise in AI opposition.

And then based on like a very violent act that happened here in San Francisco, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at

Sam Altman's home, Sam Altman being the CEO of OpenAI.