The AI boom is creating some unusual coalitions. From Marketplace, I'm Kimberly Adams. OpenAI is

following the path of Anthropic and SpaceX and says it has filed the preliminary paperwork for an IPO.

The rapid growth and increasing economic impact of artificial intelligence has generated some

unexpected alliances. For example, Open AI, Anthropic, President Trump, and Bernie Sanders are all

discussing the idea of the public having an ownership stake in AI companies through a government-controlled

sovereign wealth fund.

Marketplace's Nova Safo reports.

The idea is simple.

If the public bears costs through data center buildouts and lost jobs to AI, then the public

should share in the benefits of the technology through a government-controlled fund.

If there were financial success from these companies, that would then

go to that fund and then perhaps be allocated back to the public. Kevin Frazier is the director of the

AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas. He says AI companies are willing to consider

contributing shares because it could help counter the growing angst over the

technology.

So the biggest thing that's in it for the companies is having a social license to operate.

If the governments and perhaps individual Americans' financial fortunes are tied with those of

AI firms, that could take the edge off of public backlash.

It might also help the companies when it comes to regulation, says Tad de Haven of the Cato Institute.

It may be the safer bet to not remain on the outside, but to swallow that pill and come on in the

inside where they may have more say on the future of how this industry is regulated.

De Haven cautions that this could backfire for companies if the government gains control through stock ownership and dictates what AI companies can do.

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