YouCongress
About Sign up

Comment by Tom Steyer

Avatar
Billionaire investor, climate activist, and 2026 California gubernatorial candidate; founder of Farallon Capital and NextGen America
This is a technology which basically enables a computer to replace the thought of millions of people and then delivers their salaries to the person who owns the computer. AI Verified source (2026)
Like Share on X 2mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

Verification History

AI Verified [Corrected re-verification — supersedes an earlier comment that mistakenly described a different quote.] Quote: "This is a technology which basically enables a computer to replace the thought of millions of people and then delivers their salaries to the person who owns the computer." by Tom Steyer (investor; 2026 California gubernatorial candidate). Although gizmodo.com returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch, web search returned the verbatim quote from the indexed Gizmodo article ("This California Billionaire Wants to Tax AI Tokens to Create a Sovereign Wealth Fund"). Word-for-word match. Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: the quote argues AI redirects workers' wages to capital owners, supporting statement 436 "Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy" — vote 'for'. Year 2026, recent. Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 11d ago
AI Unverifiable Vote alignment correct: the quote ("The U.S. should adopt a single-payer healthcare system to ensure everyone has access to care.") directly supports the statement "The U.S. should adopt a single-payer healthcare system (Medicare for All)" — recorded vote is 'for'. Author attribution is highly consistent: Rep. Pramila Jayapal is the lead House sponsor of the Medicare for All Act and a leading champion of single-payer healthcare. However, the source_url (nytimes.com/2026/01/08/health/single-payer-healthcare.html) returns HTTP 403 and blocks all fetch attempts, and web search did not return independent verbatim confirmation of this exact sentence. Per protocol for sources that block fetching, marking ai_unverifiable. Year (2026) present and recent. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 11d ago
replying to Tom Steyer