Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target

特朗普促成 OpenAI 向美国政府提供 5% 股份，远低于桑德斯的目标

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in active talks with the Trump administration about the US potentially acquiring a 5 percent stake in the leading AI firm. Insider sources told the Financial Times that these talks are in “early stages,” but Altman “has argued that giving the public a financial stake in the company is the best way to share the upside of AI.”

据报道，OpenAI 首席执行官萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）正与特朗普政府进行积极磋商，探讨美国政府收购这家领先人工智能公司 5% 股份的可能性。知情人士向《金融时报》透露，这些谈判尚处于“早期阶段”，但奥特曼认为，“让公众持有公司财务股份是分享人工智能红利的最佳方式。”

Donald Trump favors the idea, and his administration has reportedly been talking to several AI firms about the possibility. According to FT’s sources, other companies approached to share similar stakes include Google and Meta. None of the firms are commenting on FT’s report, though, and Google and Meta have not indicated that they agree with Altman that a 5 percent stake would be an appropriate size to cede to the public. Perhaps notably, Meta has not even voluntarily agreed to share frontier AI models with officials for safety testing, The New York Times reported last week.

唐纳德·特朗普对这一想法表示支持，据报道，其政府已与多家人工智能公司就此可能性进行了沟通。据《金融时报》消息来源称，其他被接洽以分享类似股份的公司还包括谷歌和 Meta。不过，这些公司均未对《金融时报》的报道发表评论，谷歌和 Meta 也未表示认同奥特曼关于 5% 股份是向公众转让的合适比例的观点。值得注意的是，据《纽约时报》上周报道，Meta 甚至尚未自愿同意与政府官员分享前沿人工智能模型以进行安全测试。

But AI firms may be willing to give a little if they expect it will help them gain a lot. Currently, AI firms like OpenAI are combating what Axios billed as an “AI hate wave.” Recent polls find that 70 percent of Americans don’t want AI data centers built in their area and half of Americans are more concerned than excited about AI. In June, Pew Research Center noted that although chatbots and AI summaries are becoming more popular, “views about AI and how fast it’s advancing tilt negative—even for younger adults.”

但人工智能公司如果预期能获得巨大收益，或许愿意做出一点让步。目前，像 OpenAI 这样的人工智能公司正在应对 Axios 所称的“人工智能仇恨浪潮”。近期民调显示，70% 的美国人不希望在他们居住的地区建设人工智能数据中心，半数美国人对人工智能感到担忧多于兴奋。皮尤研究中心在六月份指出，尽管聊天机器人和人工智能摘要正变得越来越流行，但“人们对人工智能及其发展速度的看法倾向于负面——即使在年轻人中也是如此。”

Both parties are aware this could impact upcoming elections—and possibly even elections well into the future. Earlier this week, NBC News reported that voters across party lines want tighter AI regulations. Trump and AI firms have claimed that overregulation could threaten America’s lead in the AI race with China.

两党都意识到这可能会影响即将到来的选举，甚至可能影响未来的选举。本周早些时候，NBC 新闻报道称，各党派选民都希望加强对人工智能的监管。特朗普和人工智能公司则声称，过度监管可能会威胁到美国在与中国的人工智能竞赛中的领先地位。

To combat anti-AI sentiment and try to encourage the American public to embrace AI, OpenAI has suggested that the US create a sovereign wealth fund similar to the Alaska Permanent Fund. That fund invests Alaska’s oil wealth “into stocks and pays dividends to the state government and residents,” FT reported. In the spring, OpenAI first proposed creating an AI wealth fund that “provides every citizen—including those not invested in financial markets—with a stake in AI-driven economic growth,” FT reported. For society to benefit as much as possible, an OpenAI blog said, an “AI-led future” will likely require “new approaches that give people durable stakes in the systems creating value.”

为了对抗反人工智能情绪并试图鼓励美国公众拥抱人工智能，OpenAI 建议美国建立一个类似于“阿拉斯加永久基金”的主权财富基金。据《金融时报》报道，该基金将阿拉斯加的石油财富“投资于股票，并向州政府和居民支付股息”。今年春天，OpenAI 首次提议建立一个人工智能财富基金，据《金融时报》报道，该基金“为每一位公民——包括那些未投资金融市场的人——提供分享人工智能驱动的经济增长的机会”。OpenAI 的一篇博客文章称，为了让社会尽可能多地受益，“人工智能主导的未来”可能需要“新的方法，让人们在创造价值的系统中拥有持久的权益”。

So far, OpenAI has talked with Trump officials such as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, as well as Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), sources told FT. Sanders has made it clear he’s not impressed with the numbers OpenAI is discussing, though. Last month, sources familiar with Sanders’ discussions with Altman told AP News that Altman remained “far apart” from the senator on how much stake in OpenAI the American public should have.

据《金融时报》消息来源称，到目前为止，OpenAI 已经与财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）、商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克（Howard Lutnick）以及参议员伯尼·桑德斯（Bernie Sanders）等特朗普政府官员进行了交谈。不过，桑德斯明确表示，他对 OpenAI 讨论的数字并不买账。上个月，熟悉桑德斯与奥特曼讨论情况的消息人士告诉美联社，奥特曼与这位参议员在公众应持有多少 OpenAI 股份的问题上仍存在“巨大分歧”。

At that time, Sanders revealed his legislative proposal, which would create a much larger sovereign public wealth fund. Sanders’ plan requires leading AI firms to pay a one-time 50 percent tax on their stock. Sanders estimated that the tax would yield about $7 trillion, which could be disbursed as direct payments to Americans or invested in programs such as health care, education, and housing.

当时，桑德斯公布了他的立法提案，旨在建立一个规模大得多的主权公共财富基金。桑德斯的计划要求领先的人工智能公司对其股票支付一次性 50% 的税款。桑德斯估计，这项税收将产生约 7 万亿美元的收入，这些资金可以作为直接付款发放给美国人，或投资于医疗保健、教育和住房等项目。

According to FT, OpenAI has claimed that gifting a 5 percent stake to the US would give Americans more control over AI. But Sanders said the best way to ensure the public benefits from AI is to create a bipartisan Independent Commission for Democratic AI, with members nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. That commission could use voting shares to block leading AI firms from making decisions that could harm the public, Sanders told AP News. “The public has got to have a significant seat at the table to make sure that terrible things do not happen to ordinary people, and that in fact, AI benefits ordinary people, not hurts them,” Sanders said.

据《金融时报》报道，OpenAI 声称向美国赠送 5% 的股份将使美国人对人工智能拥有更多控制权。但桑德斯表示，确保公众从人工智能中受益的最佳方式是建立一个跨党派的“民主人工智能独立委员会”，其成员由总统提名并经参议院确认。桑德斯告诉美联社，该委员会可以利用投票权阻止领先的人工智能公司做出可能伤害公众的决定。“公众必须在决策桌上占有重要席位，以确保普通民众不会遭遇可怕的事情，并确保人工智能实际上是造福而非伤害普通民众，”桑德斯说道。

For OpenAI’s “conceptual” proposal to work, Congress may have to get involved to implement the mechanisms that would allow the US to take a stake in any AI firms, FT reported. So it seems likely that OpenAI and other firms will be locking horns with Sanders to negotiate what’s fair and what keeps the public safe as AI technology rapidly advances and Americans fear job losses, cybersecurity risks, and a range of harms associated with massive data centers needed to power AI innovation.

据《金融时报》报道，要使 OpenAI 的这一“概念性”提案发挥作用，国会可能需要介入，以实施允许美国持有任何人工智能公司股份的机制。因此，随着人工智能技术的飞速发展，以及美国人对失业、网络安全风险以及支撑人工智能创新所需的大型数据中心所带来的一系列危害的担忧，OpenAI 等公司很可能会与桑德斯展开博弈，以协商什么是公平的，以及如何保障公众安全。