Originally published in Washington Examiner.
While proponents of the Sanders plan see it as a way to democratize AI, some experts warned against putting so much power in the hands of a small group of people.
Taylor Barkley is the director of federal affairs for the Abundance Institute. He told the Washington Examiner that no matter how well-intentioned plans for a commission might be, whoever ends up on the board will “be people with connections in industry, in government, with their own self-interests.”
“Kind of just applying public choice economics, they’re going to act out of their self-interests,” Barkley said. “And if history is any indicator, something like this with people with this kind of power — especially on a huge driver of U.S. economic growth — it just seems like a kind of danger, flashing red light.”