Survey Finds 69% of Americans Back AI Wealth Fund
The poll found support rose as tech layoffs mounted and lawmakers debated whether the public should share in AI-driven profits.
- A national survey of 1,690 adults by research firm Verasight published earlier this month shows 69% of Americans support "forcing" AI firms to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund.
- Tech accounted for nearly a third of US layoffs in the first half of 2026, while Goldman Sachs Senior Global Economist Joseph Briggs estimates around 15 million workers could lose jobs during a 10-year AI transition.
- In June, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, pitching it as a roughly $7 trillion fund to ensure the public shares in AI-driven economic gains.
- Critics argue that seizing half of a company's equity would chill investment and drive AI development offshore, questioning the premise of treating private property as a public dividend.
- Windfall Trust noted a tension between maximizing returns for citizens and building national AI capacity, though polling suggests the debate has shifted from whether the public gets AI gains to what form the claim takes.
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