Commenter calls for nationalizing Anthropic: 50% equity tax insufficient, public should hold controlling stake
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-14
X user AlexTensor argues that if "joint international governance" of frontier AI amounts to the public underwriting Anthropic's business, a 50% equity tax won't cut it: the public should hold a controlling stake, and outright nationalization must be on the table. They claim Amodei is making an "accidental pitch for state control," and stress the technology rests on decades of publicly funded academic research — industry only scaled and commercialized it. A provocative entry in the public-ownership-vs-private-capital governance debate, not an official position.
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