Sanders Calls For Nationalizing AI Stock
The senator’s proposal would establish a sovereign wealth fund comprising 50 percent of the stock of large AI companies.
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2026 – Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, plans to introduce legislation that would give the federal government a 50 percent stake in AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. The stock would be placed in a sovereign wealth fund which would initially pay out universal dividends to Americans and later be used to fund public goods such as socialized healthcare, education, and housing.
In a New York Times op-ed, Sanders argued that since AI is trained on public information, which he alleges was taken “without acknowledgment, without compensation,” the general public has a claim to its proceeds.
