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Comment by Tom Steyer
Billionaire investor, climate activist, and 2026 California gubernatorial candidate; founder of Farallon Capital and NextGen America
the people need to own some of this upside so we can protect people from losing their jobs and make sure we don’t get hollowed out by a technology that depends on, actually, the experience, knowledge, and data from the people in this room.AI Verified source (Apr 3, 2026)
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AI Verified
The Gizmodo article at the provided URL, published April 3, 2026, contains this sentence verbatim and attributes it directly to Tom Steyer: “He said all of it was necessary because, ‘the people need to own some of this upside ...’” The stored quote text, author, date, and source URL match the source. ([gizmodo.com](https://gizmodo.com/this-california-billionaire-wants-to-tax-ai-tokens-to-create-a-sovereign-wealth-fund-2000741036))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
Disputed
I found both parts attributed to Tom Steyer in 2026, but not as one verbatim quote. Gizmodo contains only the second passage: “the people need to own some of this upside so we can protect people from losing their jobs...” from a March 31, 2026 San Diego town hall. The first sentence, “I refuse to let California’s future be a boom for billionaires and a bust for everyone else,” appears in Steyer’s March 2026 AI plan and is echoed by E&E News/Politico, not in the cited Gizmodo URL. Because the submitted quote stitches together separate sources with an ellipsis, it is materially altered as a single quotation. ([gizmodo.com](https://gizmodo.com/?p=2000741036))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Checked the quote attributed to Tom Steyer (2026) on the statement "Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a global trust that pays a dividend to every person on Earth" (vote: for). The source_url (Gizmodo) returned HTTP 403 and could not be fetched directly, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim and matched it to Steyer's 2026 California gubernatorial AI plan (the "Golden State Sovereign Wealth Fund" funded by an AI token tax). Author attribution correct, year (2026) current. Vote alignment is correct: Steyer's call that "the people need to own some of this upside" and his refusal to let AI be "a boom for billionaires and a bust for everyone else" directly support the principle of redistributing AI's value to the public via a dividend — consistent with a "for" vote. Note a scope/mechanism nuance: Steyer's concrete proposal is a California token tax rather than a global equity trust, but the quoted sentiment endorses the statement's core principle. Source URL is a legitimate report of the proposal.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Tom Steyer