If you work through the scenarios, we're going to end up enacting heavy protectionism and stimulus on US AI companies to keep the economy from imploding. We could do this with stock in AI companies (like Bernie is pushing), but if the government pays for that stock it becomes a dump target paying out to oligarchs and the AI companies become "too big to fail." If the government owns the data centers, the people profit even if AI underperforms.

How about because they used tax payer money to help fund them? Why should my money make AI executives & shareholders richer? And let them own the products of my tax?

edit: We used to call that Fraud.