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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 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 · 1h ago
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