Bernie Sanders’ AI Ownership Plan Raises a Bigger Global Question

Bernie Sanders has proposed one of the boldest AI policies we've seen so far: a plan that would require major AI companies to transfer 50% of their equity into a public sovereign wealth fund, allowing American citizens to benefit from the immense value AI is creating.

This is great for America if it passes, but what about the rest of the world?

Whether you agree with the proposal or not, it raises a question the entire industry has been avoiding:

Who should own the future of AI?

It's a fair question.

The largest AI companies in the world are now valued in the hundreds of billions, with some approaching or even surpassing the trillion-dollar mark. OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and others are creating unprecedented wealth from systems trained on humanity's collective knowledge, conversations, creativity, code, and labor.

Yet the vast majority of that value is flowing to a small group of founders, and billion-dollar investors.

Sanders' solution is government ownership.

But there is another approach.

What if the people helping train and improve AI owned a piece of it from day one?

What if ownership wasn't limited to one country?

What if someone in Nigeria, Brazil, India, Indonesia, United States, Korea, or anywhere in the world could all participate in the same AI economy?

The reality is that AI is not a purely American phenomenon. The datasets, interactions, workflows, and knowledge powering modern AI come from billions of people around the world. Any discussion about distributing AI wealth eventually runs into a global problem: who qualifies, and who gets left out?

This is where new ownership models become interesting.

At Action Model, we started with a simple belief:

The people who help build AI should benefit from AI.

Instead of waiting for governments to redistribute value after it has already been captured, contributors earn ownership as they help train the network. Every workflow created, every action recorded, every contribution made helps build the Large Action Model while rewarding the people providing the data.

It's not a political statement. It's an economic one.

Because the biggest risk of the AI era isn't simply automation.

It's concentration.

As AI automates more of the world's digital work, trillions of dollars in value could shift from workers to the companies controlling the models. The debate shouldn't only be about how much equity governments receive.

It should be about how we create systems where participation and contribution are rewarded from the beginning.

Bernie Sanders is right about one thing:

The conversation about AI ownership has arrived.

The next question is whether the future belongs to governments, corporations, or the people helping build the intelligence itself.

The AI revolution is happening regardless.

The real debate is who gets to own it. Get your stake in the future of AI. Sign up to the Action Model movement:

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