Jeremy Bearer-Friend
@bearerfriend.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Law at GW 🌈 I write on tax, race, and democracy: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1538104
*spoiler alert* Altman not actually planning to donate shares of OpenAI… TLDR; it’s long past time to TAX ‘em! washingtonsun.com/technology/s...
Sam Altman Privately Rejected Giving OpenAI Shares to the Government
The remarks follow months of reports connecting Altman to the idea of giving the government equity in his company.
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These are the top institutional downloaders of my work with @polcz.bsky.social on taxing AI. Number 1 is the United States Senate. Number 5 is the US House of Representatives. No wonder the billionaires are so scared.
I enjoyed talking to The Majority Report podcast this morning about the potential of AI equity taxes and my work with @bearerfriend.bsky.social on Senator Sanders' American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act in particular! @majorityreport.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3uH...
MR FUN | 9/1/26
YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
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Again, we’re regularly told surveillance will reduce policing but what happens is this technology is deployed along with the police while targeting the people who’ve always been over policed.
Rashawn Ray@sociologistray.bsky.social · 2w ago“Schools are adopting AI surveillance tools, from weapon-detection cameras to bathroom listening devices, often w/o evidence [it’s] reliable. Research shows surveillance tech is deployed disproportionately in schools w/more low-income & minority students.” www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-...
One of the things we have lost is the power to shame public officials. It seems quaint but it is actually very important. Without it, formal law is significantly weaker and our lives are significantly poorer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/u...
A Republican Attack Ad Used a Family’s Tragedy. Now They’re Furious. (Gift Article)
Relatives of a family killed by a semi truck say they were not consulted about the ad, which connected the crash to illegal immigration.
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Protesters march around the Luminary hotel, a Marriott property in Fort Myers where immigration agents are staying.
TODAY: Learn how you can take action to defend the vote and stop election interference from Trump and his Big Lie cronies. Join our election protection training with guest speaker Cliff Albright, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of @blackvotersmatterfund.org.
Hands Off Our Vote: Election Protection 101 & 201 · Indivisible
Calling all activists who are ready to demand Hands Off Our Vote! This August, Indivisible is holding two trainings on election protection: the actions you and those around you can take to ensure ever...
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Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
Judge strikes down Texas ban on drag shows, tells people offended by them ‘just don’t go’
The federal judge, who cited Dolly Parton in his ruling, found that the state law violated the First Amendment.
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A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. https://www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asylum-hearing
Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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Another 2 million vehicles were subject to a separate, overlapping recall.
China Orders Tesla’s Largest-Ever Recall For Nearly 3 Million Cars
Another 2 million vehicles were subject to a separate, overlapping recall.
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Thousands of employers are keeping tabs on workers through technology that was adopted widely during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more about how workers can protect their personal information: bit.ly/4wFQrZy #APIllustration by Peter Hamlin
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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I wanted to learn more about @sanders.senate.gov's proposal for taxing the shares of AI companies, so I went to the academics that helped inspire the proposal. Here's my conversation with @bearerfriend.bsky.social and @polcz.bsky.social. www.firesidestacks.com/p/bernies-ai...
How Bernie’s AI tax idea came to be (with Jeremy Bearer-Friend + Sarah Polcz)
Meet the experts who put AI public equity stakes on the map.
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This was so much fun to do
Roosevelt Forward@rooseveltforward.org · 3w agoNEW: Our @toddntucker.com interviews @bearerfriend.bsky.social and @polcz.bsky.social on how their research helped inspire Bernie Sanders’s AI tax proposal. They make the case for public ownership of AI and explain what it could mean for workers, creators, and the public. ⬇️
In 1965, CEOs were paid 21 times as much as a typical worker. Today, that number has spiked to 281. The system is rigged and it's time we level the playing field.
Trump's approval rating hit a new low in Reuters/Ipsos polling: Just 33% of Americans approve of his job performance. That's the lowest level of this term and ties his low point from his first term. 64% disapprove of his performance.
Is taxing tokens or AI data center energy use really going to be enough to protect workers? And compensate the public for AI theft? See the latest in @bloombergtax.com about these questions: news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...
Taxing AI to Help Workers Sounds Good, But Public Deserves More
Opinion: A proposed tax on artificial intelligence tokens shows why taxing AI use is a poor proxy for taxing automation. Lawmakers should instead give the public an equity stake in the firms that capt...
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New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
Yes! These machines should be owned by all of us. And here’s how: journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/ta...
Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI | Columbia Journal of Tax Law
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Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 4w agoSame AI. Same productivity gains. Very different outcomes for workers. The difference is who owns it. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-lab-grown-diamonds-broke-the
The tagline of “own it or lose” is so good. Perfectly encapsulates the urgency of worker equity stakes in AI—ideally remitted as taxes!
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 4w agoIf AI does your job, who gets paid? Today's episode of The Professor Is In explores why workers are getting a smaller share of the economic pie. Superstar firms, weaker unions, employer power, worker ownership, and how to make AI work for us: newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/if-ai-does...
The best write-up about my work with @polcz.bsky.social I’ve read yet! Thank you @georgievlaw.bsky.social @jotwell.bsky.social for making our tax paper accessible to a much broader audience.
Owning the AI Revolution - Corporate Law
Jeremy Bearer-Friend & Sarah Polcz, Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI, 17 Colum. J. Tax L. 1 (2025).George S. GeorgievMost legal responses to generative artificial intelligence ...
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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Almost half of Americans between the ages of 18-34 also had at least somewhat favorable views on socialism, a new poll found.
Young Americans Don’t Trust Billionaire AI Leaders, New Poll Finds
Almost half of Americans between the ages of 18-34 also had at least somewhat favorable views on socialism, a new poll found.
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New in PN: Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids "Miller is making his dreams come true: accelerating the arrest and removal of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant kids. This is a scene taking place out of public view across the country, impacting 24,000 children."
Stephen Miller's secret campaign against helpless kids
That it's happening in the shadows doesn't make it less of a moral blight.
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Altman and Trump have tried to coopt the @sanders.senate.gov AI Equity tax. Don’t be fooled. In our latest for Time Magazine, @polcz.bsky.social and I walk through the different ways to achieve a public stake in AI. And why tax is best way to guard against corruption. time.com/article/2026...
An AI Tax Could Be the Great Equalizer America Needs
“A tax is the best way to secure the public’s standing as a co-owner of AI,” argue Sarah Polcz and Jeremy Bearer-Friend.
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Quick thoughts on @repcasar.bsky.social token tax introduced last week: 1) Compatible with @sanders.senate.gov AI equity tax--both could be in effect at the same time w/ no prob; 2) Leg text follows Bernie's--excise tax on AI activity plus a new trust fund; 3) Incidence will be on consumers.
Bill Bot@bill-bot.bsky.social · last mo.HR10044 To impose a tax on artificial intelligence token usage and establish a Work Protection Administration within the Department of Labor, and for other... 📢 Introduced in House https://congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10044 #HR10044 #congress119 #house #democrat #congress #newbill
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists.
She protested ICE raids. Then agents showed up at her door
The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists.
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