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Comment by Dean Baker
Economist; co-founder and senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
An AI sovereign wealth fund is likely to end up being a mechanism to shovel yet more money to Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the rest of the right-wing billionaire gang. [...] The sovereign wealth fund idea is a massive leap in the wrong direction.
AI Verified
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(2026)
1d ago
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AI Verified
Quote: "An AI sovereign wealth fund is likely to end up being a mechanism to shovel yet more money to Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and the rest of the right-wing billionaire gang. [...] The sovereign wealth fund idea is a massive leap in the wrong direction." — Dean Baker, 2026.
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- Source URL (nationalmemo.com) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, so I corroborated via web search. The search confirms both segments of the quote verbatim, attributed to economist Dean Baker in his National Memo piece "Why We Don't Need (Or Want) Bernie Sanders' AI Sovereign Wealth Fund," responding to Sanders' AI wealth fund proposal.
- Author attribution: Correct. Dean Baker is co-founder/senior economist at CEPR and authored this critique.
- Year: 2026, correct and recent.
- Relevance: Highly relevant — directly addresses a national AI equity/dividend fund proposal.
- Vote alignment: Statement is "Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen" — this is precisely the sovereign wealth fund idea Baker calls "a massive leap in the wrong direction." Vote "against" correctly reflects his opposition.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1d ago
replying to Dean Baker