Sam Altman and Bernie Sanders discussed public ownership in AI firms as concerns grow over jobs, data centres and the benefits of AI expansion.

When the grid was electrified in the 1930s, it left landowners wealthy and the rest with nothing but displacement. Bernie Sanders doesn't want that to happen again.

The CEO pitched the idea as a way to bring economic benefits from AI to the public, according to NOTUS, which added that Altman first pitched the idea to President Donald Trump…