THE artificial-intelligence boom has minted(创造（财富）) vast fortunes. Jensen Huang’s stake of nearly 4% in Nvidia, the chipmaker he co-founded in 1993, is worth $175bn, up 50-fold in seven years. Anthropic’s latest funding round, which valued the AI lab at nearly $1trn, more than doubled the estimated wealth of its boss, Dario Amodei. Yet as new plutocrats(富豪、财阀) gain riches, most Americans doubt the gains from AI will be widely shared. Less than one in three think the technology will make ordinary people richer.
人工智能热潮创造了巨额财富。黄仁勋持有近4%的英伟达股份——这家芯片制造商由他于1993年共同创立——价值1750亿美元，七年间增长了50倍。Anthropic的最新融资轮对这家AI实验室的估值接近1万亿美元，使其老板达里奥·阿莫代伊的财富估值翻了一倍多。然而，随着新贵们攫取财富，大多数美国人怀疑AI的收益能否被广泛分享。只有不到三分之一的人认为这项技术会让普通人变得更富。
Populists on left and right are scrambling for an answer(急于寻找解决方案). On June 5th Donald Trump appeared to endorse a proposal, championed(倡导、支持) by Sam Altman of OpenAI, under which AI firms would voluntarily contribute equity to a public wealth fund, with the returns eventually flowing to households. “It almost becomes a partnership with the American public,” Mr Trump declared. “It would make ’em rich.” Bernie Sanders, a leftie senator, wants a one-off(一次性的) 50% tax on AI firms’ value, paid in stock, to give Americans a “direct ownership stake”. Mr Amodei has floated(提出（想法）) the idea of “universal capital accounts”. These proposals reflect a growing belief that if AI generates extraordinary wealth, the public should share in it.
左右翼民粹主义者都急于寻找解决方案。6月5日，唐纳德·特朗普似乎认可了OpenAI的萨姆·奥尔特曼提出的方案，即AI公司自愿向公共财富基金捐赠股权，收益最终流入家庭。特朗普宣称：“这几乎成了与美国公众的伙伴关系。这会让他们富起来。”左派参议员伯尼·桑德斯希望对AI公司价值征收一次性50%的税，以股票形式支付，让美国人获得“直接所有权”。阿莫代伊提出了“全民资本账户”的想法。这些提案反映了一种日益增长的信念：如果AI产生非凡财富，公众应该分享。
Beneath the populist packaging lies a serious idea.(倒装句，强调“严肃的想法”) Wealth in America is already concentrated: the top 1% own nearly a third of it and the bottom half just 2.5%. If AI substantially raises the returns to capital relative to labour, that divide could widen; superintelligence, if it materialises(实现、成为现实), could make much human labour obsolete(过时的、被淘汰的), leaving the gains to whoever owns the machines. In such a future, giving the public a stake starts to look prudent.(简单句，动名词短语作主语)
在民粹主义的外衣下隐藏着一个严肃的想法。美国的财富已经集中：最富有的1%拥有近三分之一的财富，而底层一半只占2.5%。如果AI大幅提高资本相对于劳动的回报率，这一鸿沟可能进一步扩大；如果超级智能成为现实，它可能使大部分人类劳动过时，收益将归机器所有者所有。在这样的未来，让公众拥有股权开始显得审慎。
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