Scott Stanford

Suddenly everyone wants to hand the government a piece of AI. Sam Altman has discussed giving up a stake in OpenAI. Washington already owns 10% of Intel and has said it will take a cut of Nvidia’s China chip revenue. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants every major AI lab to put half of its stock into a new sovereign wealth fund. In soccer terms, these are shots on goal, but nobody is scoring. Every one of these proposals ends in the same place: equity parked with the government.

‘It takes a department to raise a child…’ Who has ever said that? Hopefully nobody, but it’s clear that this has been the subconscious mindset in our failing education system for decades now. The proof is in the pudding – students are underachieving, teachers are leaving the profession in droves, and government education departments are becoming increasingly bloated.

Open AccessArticle by 1,*, 2, 3 and 1 1 New Jersey Geological and Water Survey (Retired), Trenton, NJ 08625, USA 2 Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, USA 3 Department of Geology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.