{"slug": "bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan", "title": "Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan", "summary": "Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a sovereign wealth fund funded by taxing artificial intelligence profits to ensure the technology's benefits are shared publicly. The plan, outlined in a New York Times opinion piece, aims to prevent a handful of billionaires from controlling AI's future without democratic input. Sanders argued that such a fund would redirect AI-driven wealth toward public goods, addressing what he called a critical threat to global democracy.", "body_md": "Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator [asked](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-intelligence-bernie-sanders.html): “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?”\n\nWe agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today. Our book, [Rewiring Democracy](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049948/rewiring-democracy/), surveys the emerging uses for and impacts of AI in democracy around the world and reaches the same conclusion: that the most urgent risk posed by AI is the ...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan", "canonical_source": "https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan.html", "published_at": "2026-06-12 11:03:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-12 11:43:07.753225+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Bernie Sanders", "New York Times"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan.jsonld"}}