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Comment by Oren Etzioni

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AI2 founder; UW professor
AI’s economic challenges are real and the grievance underneath these proposals is legitimate, but government ownership is the wrong remedy. The conflict of interest is real, the precedents are bad, and it’s hard to imagine that a referee with money on the game will be neutral.
Unverified (Jul 19, 2026)
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Oren Etzioni, “Etzioni on AI: Uncle Sam wants a stake in leading AI companies — what could possibly go wrong?”, GeekWire, July 19, 2026.
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Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen
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