Representatives of those five companies could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n
Trump compared the prospective investment in AI to the US government last year taking a 10% stake in Intel<\/a>, a company that makes computer chips. He claimed the US has already made money on that investment.<\/p>\n Part of the US investing directing in AI companies, however, would be to improve Americans’ views of the technology, which have grown increasingly, external<\/a> negative, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n “We’re talking about it,”Trump said, referring to conversations with AI leaders “where the American people can benefit from the success of AI, the American people will like it better”. <\/p>\n Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, this week travelled to Washington DC and met Senator Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n Sanders recently said he intended to propose, external<\/a> a sort of sovereign wealth fund in which the US would take a 50% stake in AI companies.<\/p>\n Asked about Sanders’ plan, President Trump insisted he had been considering the US investing in AI companies for a year, but did not dismiss the senator’s notion.<\/p>\n “Where economics are concerned, we have things that aren’t that far apart,” Trump said.<\/p>\n A representative for Sanders could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n