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Trump’s strange flirtation with AI socialism, explained

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A new, bipartisan idea is taking Washington by storm: collective ownership of the means of production. Sort of, anyway. Last Friday, President Donald Trump announced that he would soon be meeting with the executives of top AI companies to discuss a financial “partnership.” “There are concepts where pieces [of these companies] could be given to the American public, where the Americ...