OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly discussed giving the US government 5% stake in the company. This move of the AI giant is part of the early talks with the Trump administration and is aimed at easing political tensions and shared the upside of AI growth with the public. The report further adds that Altman argued that public ownership could help secure good relations with Washington and also distribute wealth generated by AI more broadly. Altman has also suggested that other leading US AI companies such as Google, Anthropic and Meta should also hand over a similar stake to the government. He pointe to models like the Alaska Permanent Fund, which invests oil wealth into stocks and they pays dividends to residents as a possible framework for distributing AI-driven gains. Do you think that this is a way of evading intended security checks ?

