The Financial Times reported Thursday, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the talks, that CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial stake in the firm is the best way to share the upside of AI. An unnamed person familiar with the matter told Axios the proposal is in its very early stages.
An unnamed source speaking to Reuters said the Trump Administration and Anthropic have not discussed the government taking stakes in the firm. TIME did not immediately hear back from Google and Meta when sought for comment.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the FT report.
The White House also did not immediately respond to TIME’s request for comment on the OpenAI proposal, though Trump has previously toyed with the idea of the U.S. government owning a stake in AI firms: “There’s something very interesting about it where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public.”
In an April policy paper, OpenAI floated the concept of a “Public Wealth Fund” that “provides every citizen—including those not invested in financial markets—with a stake in AI-driven economic growth.” Returns from the fund, the company said, could be distributed directly to citizens.
Pressure from Washington
Any deal with AI firms would likely require an act of Congress, the unnamed sources told the FT.
In June, the U.S. Commerce Department blocked foreign nationals from using versions of Anthropic’s Claude AI models amid national security concerns. The government has since lifted that block this week, though Anthropic said in a blog post that one of the models, Mythos 5, was only made available to a set of U.S. organizations.
Earlier that month, Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a framework for the federal government to assess the national security risks of AI systems for up to 30 days before their release.
Strict government oversight complicates OpenAI's and Anthropic's attempts to go public. Critics also point out that increased oversight may slow the U.S.’s technological advancements and give its competitors, such as China, an edge.
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