Should the US nationalize OpenAI and Anthropic instead of letting them IPO?
arian_ghashghai · x · 2026-09-14
signulll proposes canceling the labs' IPOs and nationalizing OpenAI, Anthropic and others: the US Treasury becomes the sole shareholder and can coordinate compute, model releases, security standards and pacing without rival firms colluding. arianghashghai retorts that the federal government — still running some services on COBOL — is hardly up to the task. A provocative debate on governance and incentives as AI labs head toward public markets.
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