美國政府想拿走 OpenAI、Anthropic 一半的股權
提案的人是民主黨之前總統參選人(後來沒上)的 Bernie Sanders
然後就被 David Sacks(白宮 AI 沙皇)寫了一條長推回應,蠻有趣的,整理一下:
TL;DR
1. 提案邏輯:這些 AI 龍頭用全人類的免費知識訓練出來、又天天喊 AI 會造成大失業,而且自己註冊成「公益公司(Public Benefit Corporation)」 — 那還有什麼比讓政府持股 50%、拿一半財富去還國債更「公益」?
2. 連右派也心動:這些嘴上講慈善,實際在養一票跟傳統價值對幹的 NGO(Sacks 原話「Soros-maxxing is not charity」)。他甚至說自己「幾乎想支持,當作一種愚蠢稅」
3. 但 Sacks 最後反對,理由只有一個 — 國有化 AI 會加速「政府 × 企業」融合,長出一個比 CBDC 更可怕的東西:Central Government AI(中央政府 AI)
我蠻贊同 Sacks 的 — 當你因為害怕輸掉而被迫把 AI 給政府化,那跟共產制度有什麼兩樣?
其實這就是 Crypto 創造出來的初衷與提供的價值(Yep,我們繞一圈又回到這)
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While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right.
The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations.
Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book.
Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy.
Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax.
There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior.
We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid).
That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior.
America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control.
Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.