ALBAWABA - As the AI industry booms and becomes more and more invasive in American lives, a poll shows that a majority of Americans have a negative view of it and support seizing its wealth for themselves.
It’s not hard to see why Americans are so negative toward AI as it threatens to take away jobs, destroy the environment, and drive up energy bills - all this damage being built on stolen writing and artwork which AI LLMs use to mimic humanity.
A national poll survey from Verasight shows that Americans had enough, and are looking for a change. A whopping 69 percent of Americans interviewed in the survey support forcing AI companies to transfer 50 percent of their stock into a public wealth fund - an idea shared by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
This idea, once very obscure, has been brought to the forefront by Sanders who said:
"It would guarantee that the economic benefits generated by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — not simply to make the richest people in the world even richer," in a statement last month.
The act, called the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, proposes that AI tech giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI submit to a one time 50 percent tax on their stock. This was evaluated to create a fund worth around $7 trillion, to be used for the public.
Another clue of AI fatigue among the American public is NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to shut down and ban the building of any new AI data centers in New York, with AI not seeming as popular to working class citizens across the country who face its threat the most.
