A majority of U.S. workers now support an AI wealth fund. They want corporations held accountable. The irony writes itself.
These are the same people who spent the last three years feeding data into ChatGPT for free. Correcting its grammar. Teaching it to code. Optimizing prompts like unpaid interns at a startup that just fired them. Now they want the government to claw back money from the companies that monetized their volunteer work. Stunning pivot. Really showed those executives.
The survey comes as tech layoffs surge. Tech workers getting laid off. By tech. That they built. It's like watching a man dig his own grave, complain about the shovel, then ask for a pension from the shovel manufacturer.
An AI sovereign wealth fund would theoretically redistribute tech profits to citizens. The same citizens who gave away their intellectual labor, their creative output, and their behavioral data for the cost of a free account. But sure. A government fund will fix the power imbalance. The folks who brought you the DMV and the TSA will definitely outmaneuver Silicon Valley venture capital. High confidence trade.
The workers polled believe corporations should be held more accountable. They did not specify how. They did not mention which corporations. They just want someone else to handle it. Preferably someone with the letters G, O, and V in the title. This is the same energy as a retail trader buying puts after the stock already crashed, then blaming market makers for the spread.
Tech employees trained the machine. The machine replaced them. Now they want a wealth fund. Next they'll want the wealth fund managed by an AI.
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