Comment by S. Yash Kalash

A limited public stake could help solve these legitimacy issues. [...] governments could hold small, non-voting equity stakes or warrants in frontier AI firms that benefit from public compute, procurement, defense contracts, energy support, or chip access. Those returns could flow into a sovereign AI fund rather than into the general budget. [...] Only at the most direct end would it resemble a citizen dividend model, similar in principle to Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend, which distributes resource-linked investment returns to eligible residents.