{"id":267348,"date":"2026-06-08T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:30:12","slug":"the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Must Reject Government Control of Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">The United States Must Reject Government Control of Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-08 09:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rstreet.org\">www.rstreet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every major technological revolution\u2014but especially information and communications technology (ICT) revolutions\u2014eventually feature calls for far-reaching political controls. The argument is always the same: powerful technology must be centrally managed, or potentially even owned by the government, in the name of safety, security, job protection, wealth-sharing, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the latest example of this trend. In a remarkably short time, the Overton Window\u00a0in AI policy has shifted multiple times. Examples include extreme calls for global development bans, and even potential nationalization\u00a0following the debut of ChatGPT, and then again\u00a0more recently\u00a0following Anthropic\u2019s warning that it viewed its new Claude \u201cMythos\u201d model as too powerful for immediate public release. <\/p>\n<p>After a brief period of policy moderation that featured efforts by the Trump administration\u00a0and other lawmakers\u00a0to encourage wider AI development, extreme proposals are back on the menu. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) argued recently that the government should own\u00a0a 50 percent stake in large AI companies. Recent\u00a0reports\u00a0also state that some senior Trump administration officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Anthropic about potential \u201cpartnerships\u201d with the federal government to acquire shares in their firms or share profits in some fashion. <\/p>\n<p>No matter what form nationalization takes\u2014whether \u201chard\u201d (outright government ownership) or \u201csoft\u201d (equity stakes or wealth-sharing \u201cpartnerships\u201d)\u2014these proposals share the dangerous common premise that AI is too important to be left to competitive markets and decentralized experimentation. They all entail government controlling algorithmic and computational technologies through top-down plans and pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this is being proposed by progressive liberals, conservative populists,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Must Reject Government Control of Artificial Intelligence https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/the-united-states-must-reject-government-control-of-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-08 09:18:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AdobeStock_1760791113-scaled.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-267348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267350,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267348\/revisions\/267350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}