Comment by Ro Khanna

U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district
To whom much is given, at least, a little is expected. The truth is 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. [...] We also need to create 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. [...] Fourth, we must launch a Future Workforce Administration. [...] Funded by a modest wealth tax on the trillions created here and by a token tax on AI used by businesses that displaces labor, this program will put Americans to work in public service.
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AI Verified Fox News’ op-ed at the provided URL is bylined to Rep. Ro Khanna and published on February 26, 2026. The article contains the quoted passages verbatim, including “To whom much is given, at least, a little is expected,” the “annual data dividend” line, “Fourth, we must launch a Future Workforce Administration,” and the sentence beginning “Funded by a modest wealth tax…”; the [...] omissions only skip intervening text. ([foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rep-ro-khanna-we-need-new-tech-social-contract-reclaim-ai-from-billionaires)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
Disputed Disputed. Fox News does have a Feb. 26, 2026 op-ed by Rep. Ro Khanna at the cited URL, and it contains closely related passages attributed to him, but not this quote verbatim. In the article, the sequence is: “To whom much is given …” before “The truth is our taxpayer dollars …”; later it says “We also need to create” an annual data dividend; and in a separate later section, “Funded by” the taxes, “this program” will put Americans to work in public service. The submitted text drops words, reorders sentences, and merges the “Funded by” clause into the data-dividend sentence, which is a material alteration. ([foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/rep-ro-khanna-we-need-new-tech-social-contract-reclaim-ai-from-billionaires)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Rep. Ro Khanna: argues taxpayer/philanthropic dollars funded AI at Dartmouth, MIT, Stanford (ImageNet, Digital Library Project that gave birth to Google), proposing "an annual data dividend so every American gets a check from the data they generate... [funded by] a modest wealth tax on the trillions created here and by a token tax on AI used by businesses that displaces labor." Year 2026 (Fox News op-ed, Feb 2026). Vote "for" on 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" is a reasonable directional alignment — Khanna supports distributing AI/tech wealth to people via a dividend, though his specific mechanism is a tax-funded American data dividend rather than equity-funded global trust. The source_url (foxnews.com) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch. However, web search returned both quoted segments essentially verbatim with correct attribution. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source URL blocks automated fetching; corroboration is strong. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 25d ago
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