--- title: 69% of Americans back public ownership of big AI firms description: A Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults found 69% support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund — the core policy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/69-of-americans-back-public-ownership-of-big-ai-firms-2ezfxz1uk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 69% of Americans back public ownership of big AI firms | daily.dev og:description: A Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults found 69% support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund — the core policy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/69-of-americans-back-public-ownership-of-big-ai-firms-2ezfxz1uk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2Ezfxz1Uk.png og:image:alt: 69% of Americans back public ownership of big AI firms og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 69% of Americans back public ownership of big AI firms **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults found 69% support forcing AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund — the core policy in Bernie Sanders's American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. The shift in public opinion tracks a labor market where tech accounted for nearly a third of US layoffs in H1 2026, while the same firms raised AI capital spending. Goldman Sachs estimates up to 15 million workers could be displaced over a decade-long AI transition. Critics argue forced equity transfers would chill investment and drive AI development offshore, and that survey wording inflates support. Sanders's bill is unlikely to pass this Congress, but the polling signals a meaningful shift in the Overton window — from debating whether AI takes jobs to debating who gets the gains. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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