EL PAÍS - Bernie #Sanders: la #IA pertenece al pueblo, no a los #multimillonarios
#Free the #AI : (Completely) #opensource #foss #AI ✊️✊️✊️
"American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act": Bernie #Sanders fordert, 50% der Anteile an #Anthropic, #OpenAI & Co. denen zu geben, die auch das Trainingsmaterial für die #LLM gestellt haben, ohne gefragt zu werden.
Wobei er in guter amerikanischer Kolonialtradition Nicht-US-Bürger_innen natürlich ignoriert.
Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders and Sam Altman are all talking about public ownership in AI
Concerns about AI’s impact are growing, with backlash over data centers in local communities and job prospects. Policymakers are exploring AI regulation, with bipartisan efforts in Congress and oversight from the Trump administration.
Bernie #Sanders CONFRONTS #SamAltman About #AI #tyt #yt
The financialization of the American electoral process is well documented.
Now two key progressive legislators are proposing a new law to do something about it.
Sen. Bernie #Sanders (I-VT)
and Democratic Rep. Summer #Lee (PA-12) introduced the
"Abolish Super PACs Act" on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
It’s a measure they say will eliminate one the primary ways billionaires funnel cash into elections: super PACs.
The bill would limit donations to super PACs to $5,000 for both individuals and corporations.
“Today, the average American gets one vote.
Billionaires, however, through their super PACs, can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect the candidates of their choice
and to defeat candidates who stand up for working families or a just foreign policy,” Sanders said.
The measure is necessary, Lee said,
to save a democratic process that is under strain from unlimited sums of money poured into elections by billionaires and corporations.
“Our bill would ensure that millionaires, billionaires, corporations, corporate interests, special interests would no longer be able to get around the guardrails, the limitations that everyday individuals like you and I have,” Lee said.
A super PAC, or political action committee, is an entity that can currently raise unlimited donations from individuals, corporations, and unions.
It can spend that money to independently support or oppose candidates, including through advertising and other election-related expenditures.
Candidates cannot formally coordinate with a super PAC. -- But that limitation is often skirted, leaving the wealthiest
Both Sanders and Lee pointed to the fallout from the Supreme Court’s "Citizens United v. FEC" decision in 2010 as a key motivator to overhaul current election laws sooner rather than later.
Since the controversial ruling opened the door for unlimited outside spending on elections, corporations and billionaires have turned to super PACs to unleash a barrage of spending.
“I don’t want people to think this is just another issue. It is a more important issue,” Sanders said at the press conference announcing the bill.
“We are the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare.
Why is that?
You think it may have something to do with the power of the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies who spend millions of dollars making sure we don’t move to a Medicare for All system?”
“This is an issue that touches on every single issue facing working people in this country,” said Sanders.
Billionaire Elon Musk used his America PAC to pour roughly $288 million into Trump’s and other Republlicans 2024 presidential campaign.
The Abolish Super PACs Act comes as a smaller and wealthier group of donors fund a growing proportion of campaign spending.
The New York Times reported that just 300 billionaires and their families accounted for 19% of all federal campaign spending in the US in 2024,
-- much of it funneled through Super PACs.
Before the Citizens United ruling, contributions from billionaires made up only 0.3%.
“It corrupts, it discourages, I call it functionally disenfranchising the political process from every aspect, from every angle,” Lee said
https://therealnews.com/sanders-lee-move-to-rein-in-super-pacs-amid-growing-billionaire-grip-on-us-elections
The bill targets one of the central vehicles for unlimited outside spending, as progressives warn that billionaire money—and broader threats of voter intimidation—are putting democratic elections under strain.
Repubblica.it: Sanders a Torino, vedrà Schlein e Fratoianni
L’attivismo di Sanders è considerato un modello per i rossoverdi e non solo. Anche perché indica la strada di una proposta politica radicale ma che vuole condizionare, da alleati, i progressisti più moderati
Sanders in Turin, will see Schlein and Fratoianni.
Sanders’ activism is considered a model for the Greens and not just that. This is because it indicates the path of a radical political proposal that wants to influence, through allies, more moderate progressives.
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