Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

This essay critiques Bernie Sanders' proposal for a sovereign wealth fund to take large equity stakes in AI companies, arguing that public ownership would entangle government interests with corporate profitability and could undermine regulation and competition; instead, the authors advocate taxation measures and a publicly-developed AI 'public option' (illustrated by Switzerland's Apertus project) as better mechanisms to ensure democratic control, transparency, and the public interest in AI development.