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Elizabeth Warren: “AI was trained on human creativity and human intelligence.”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

It's time to tax AI and invest in people.

Published May 29, 2026 | Video Starts at 02:00

We should go right to the source by taxing AI data centers. These ideas are just the starting point, but here's the takeaway. The success of AI should belong to all of us. AI was trained on human creativity and human intelligence. AI was funded by federal investments in research that taxpayers paid for. And AI is powered by data centers that are built on American land and use our shared electric grid. (02:00–02:06)

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Asserts that AI development relied on human creativity and intelligence.

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