Indian-American billionaire and OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla has proposed a bold new idea to tackle the growing economic inequality expected from artificial intelligence (AI). Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the Khosla Ventures founder suggested that the U.S. government should own a 10 percent stake in every public company, ensuring that the benefits of AI-driven economic growth are shared more broadly across society.

Khosla emphasized that such a measure could provide a direct way for every American to participate in the nation’s collective prosperity rather than leaving the gains of AI to be enjoyed by a small group of shareholders and executives. “Take 10 per cent of every corporation and put it in a national pool for the people, that’s really interesting. Just take 10 per cent of

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