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Palantir CEO Says Bernie Sanders Will Regret Only Wanting 50% Public Ownership of AI Companies

Trump said he planned to meet AI executives to discuss giving the public a stake in their companies.

Palantir CEO Says Bernie Sanders Will Regret Only Wanting 50% Public Ownership of AI Companies
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicted that Bernie Sanders’s support for public ownership of AI companies would soon seem insufficiently progressive, arguing that full nationalization could become mainstream. The article also describes President Donald Trump’s interest in public ownership and former adviser David Sacks’s opposition.

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Donald Trump
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President discussing a possible public stake in AI companies

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Advocate for public ownership of AI companies

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Defense secretary whose efforts to blacklist Anthropic are mentioned

ALSO MENTIONED  David Sacks, Former AI and crypto adviser who opposed adopting the Sanders position on AI nationalization

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