＞ Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan.html
<p>Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/opinion/artificial-intelligence-bernie-sanders.html">asked</a>: “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?”</p>
<p>We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today. Our book, <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049948/rewiring-democracy/">Rewiring Democracy</a>, 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 ...</p>
