{"id":74597,"date":"2026-06-08T05:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan-is-good-but-we-think-this-is-better-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T05:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:56:50","slug":"bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan-is-good-but-we-think-this-is-better-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan-is-good-but-we-think-this-is-better-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders\u2019 AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better | Nathan E Sanders  and Bruce Schneier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we do not outright oppose the taking of AI company stock, or of a US a sovereign wealth fund, there are better ways to achieve the senator\u2019s goals<\/p>\n<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>: \u201cWill 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.contrariannews.org\/p\/how-to-build-ai-for-democracy\">concentration<\/a> of power, wealth and control among tech oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jun\/08\/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we do not outright oppose the taking of AI company stock, or of a US a sovereign wealth fund, there are better ways to achieve the senator\u2019s goals Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: \u201cWill the future of &#8230; <a title=\"Bernie Sanders\u2019 AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better | Nathan E Sanders  and Bruce Schneier\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/bernie-sanders-ai-sovereign-wealth-fund-plan-is-good-but-we-think-this-is-better-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bernie Sanders\u2019 AI sovereign wealth fund plan is good. But we think this is better | Nathan E Sanders  and Bruce Schneier\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}