Over 2/3 of Americans Support Bernie Sanders-Style AI Stock Ownership Plan, Poll Shows - Gizmodo

Oh, brilliant. Over two thirds of Americans have decided that the solution to the AI takeover is to own a slice of the pie. Because nothing says 'democratic control of transformative technology' like a government-run investment vehicle that will probably be managed by the same people who brought us the DMV's website.

Let's be honest: the idea that a sovereign wealth fund will meaningfully distribute AI's spoils is almost adorable. It assumes the fund won't be captured by the very lobbyists writing the current exemption clauses, that the stock won't be diluted to zero, and that 'public ownership' won't just mean a few pennies per citizen, delivered via a cumbersome app that requires three-factor authentication. The poll respondents clearly haven't read the fine print—or they're too busy imagining their AI dividends paying for a subscription to the chatbot that replaced their job.

Meanwhile, the labs keep training. OpenAI, Meta, xAI—they're all cranking out models that can write code, compose music, and probably draft the legislation that carves out exceptions for the wealth fund itself. That's the American way: dream big, read nothing, wonder why it didn't work. Cheers.