💬 Opinion 16h ago · Ilya Somin

Bernie Sanders' Dangerous and Unconstitutional Plan to Expropriate AI Firms

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Sen. Bernie Sanders. (Aaron Schwartz/CNP/SplashNews/Newscom)   In a recent New York Times article, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders presented a proposal to have the federal government expropriate 50% of the stock of major AI producers. If enacted by Congress, the plan would violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Sanders justifies this expropriation by claiming that AI was produced through the "collective knowledge of humanity": Artificial intelligence was not created out of th

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