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Director of AI Policy and Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation
Even if taking partial ownership of frontier AI companies can make sense on paper, in practice it's a recipe for political favoritism and corruption.
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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 The quote clearly opposes the core mechanism of the statement: requiring equity stakes in frontier AI companies. Calling partial ownership of such companies "a recipe for political favoritism and corruption" implies opposition to a national equity-sharing scheme like the proposed fund and dividend. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes the core idea of taking equity: it says "taking partial ownership of frontier AI companies... in practice it's a recipe for political favoritism and corruption." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic as presented: the provided Tangle article dated June 10, 2026 contains the exact sentence (allowing only curly-vs-straight apostrophe punctuation) and explicitly attributes it to “Samuel Hammond, director of AI policy at the Foundation for American Innovation.” The Tangle piece also links that attribution to a Financial Times article titled “What we know about the plan to give Americans an equity stake in AI.” ([readtangle.com](https://www.readtangle.com/government-ownership-ai-companies-bernie-sanders-trump/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (readtangle.com) returns HTTP 403 Forbidden and blocks automated access, so I could not confirm the page contains the quote. I also tried web searches for the exact phrasing ("recipe for political favoritism and corruption" / "make sense on paper") and the likely primary source (Fast Company's AI nationalization article, also 403); neither surfaced the verbatim quote. The quote is consistent with Samuel Hammond's known free-market AI-policy stance at the Foundation for American Innovation, and the vote ("against" the statement that frontier AI labs should contribute equity to a national citizen-dividend fund, statement 452) correctly aligns with the quote's opposition to government partial ownership. Year 2026 is current. Marking ai_unverifiable because the source blocks access and I could not independently confirm the verbatim quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 20d ago
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