Bernie Sanders Says AI Should Be Socialist

In this FrontPage Magazine article, Daniel Greenfield argues that Bernie Sanders’ proposal for government control over a major share of AI represents a familiar socialist effort to turn private innovation into state power.

• Greenfield says Sanders is using artificial intelligence as the latest target in his long-running campaign for government control over major sectors of the economy.
• The article focuses on Sanders’ New York Times op-ed, where he argues that AI is built on the collective knowledge, creativity, writing, art, journalism, code, images, and ideas of millions of people.
• Greenfield rejects Sanders’ logic, arguing that nearly all human invention builds on prior knowledge, and that this does not give the government a rightful claim over private companies or creative output.
• The piece frames Sanders’ argument as a collectivist leap from “human knowledge is shared” to “the state should own or govern the benefits,” which Greenfield says is the classic socialist fallacy.
• Greenfield argues that if AI companies used copyrighted or protected material unlawfully, then individual rights holders may have legal claims, but politicians do not have a blanket claim over “the sum of human knowledge.”
• Sanders’ proposal is portrayed as less about returning control to creators and more about transferring authority to politicians and bureaucrats.
• The article warns that forcing government ownership or control over AI companies would likely drive investment and innovation away from the United States.
• Greenfield criticizes Sanders’ use of Alaska’s Permanent Fund and Norway-style models, arguing that small populations with major energy revenues are poor comparisons for the United States.
• The broader warning is that AI is already powerful and potentially dangerous, but putting it under socialist political control would make it worse by combining technological power with state coercion.

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