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Labor journalist; author of the "How Things Work" newsletter and the book "The Hammer"; former writer at Gawker and In These Times
[A national AI wealth fund] encourages everyone to think not as citizens, but as investors. [...] This is extremely dangerous. AI Verified source (2026)
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Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen

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AI Verified Verified. The quote is attributed to Hamilton Nolan from his "How Things Work" article "An AI-Funded Sovereign Wealth Fund Is Dangerous" (2026). Direct WebFetch of the source_url returned HTTP 403, but a web search of the same article confirmed its core argument matches the quote: that a national AI wealth fund "encourages everyone to think not as citizens, but as investors" and that this is dangerous (the article's thesis/title). Author attribution is correct (Nolan is a labor journalist who wrote this piece). The vote "against" aligns with statement 452 ("Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund...") since Nolan opposes the proposal. Year 2026 is current. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1d ago
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