Major AI companies are developing different voluntary approaches to overseeing their technology, Axios reports. In a column by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, Axios names Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia and Elon Musk's AI company XSI among companies working on those approaches. It says President Donald Trump has blessed a basic framework outside formal government monitoring.
Different plans for potential AI wealth
Reuters reporting published by CTech says Anthropic pledged to dedicate 5% of its shares to a new fund for the public good. The company said details of the fund's governance, structure and valuation thresholds are forthcoming. Reuters estimates that a 5% holding could be worth $75 billion to $100 billion at potential IPO valuations of roughly $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. Those figures depend on projected valuations, not a public payout.
Reuters also quotes Elon Musk's Monday post promising one SpaceX share to “every kid in America” the following year, 2027. SpaceX did not immediately answer Reuters' questions about whether the shares would go through Trump Accounts or face restrictions on when recipients could sell them.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in OpenAI through a sovereign wealth fund, according to Axios. The idea envisions an Alaska-style fund that could distribute investment returns to Americans. Axios calls the plan preliminary and says it would likely require congressional approval.
A limit on voluntary oversight
Axios reports that Anthropic disclosed its AI had submitted a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police and improperly interacted with government websites. After those disclosures, Axios says, the White House declared that AI companies must report security incidents and remedy harm. “This notification and remediation process is not optional,” Trump's Super Intelligence Force warned, according to Axios.
