Comment by Ro Khanna

Our taxpayer dollars and philanthropic dollars funded the development of AI at Dartmouth, MIT, and at Stanford with ImageNet and with the Digital Library Project that helped give birth to Google. To whom much is given, at least, a little is expected. [...] An annual data dividend so every American gets a check from the data they generate both for private businesses and our government activities like public health, traffic management and policy research, [funded by] a modest wealth tax on the trillions created here and by a token tax on AI used by businesses that displaces labor. Unverified source (2026)