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Pete Buttigieg: “The American taxpayer literally invented the Internet and…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Published | Video Starts at 1:05:10

If you appropriately capture some of the value of what AI might generate and you return it to the people. And I don't think that's confiscation. I think that's participation. Because again, The American taxpayer literally invented the Internet and all these models trained on data that all of us put out in the world for free. So it seems to me only fair that we could get a slice of it. Right. You could use taxes to do that. You could also structure it as more of a dividend. (1:05:10–1:05:18)

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