In the long human struggle to govern transformative power, Senator Bernie Sanders has stepped forward with a dual proposal: a ban on artificial superintelligence and a sovereign wealth fund granting the federal government a 50 percent stake in major AI companies. The announcement arrives as a direct philosophical counterpoint to the Trump administration's investment-first embrace of AI, raising a question as old as industry itself — should society cultivate a new force, or constrain it? The legislation faces a Republican-controlled Congress and a president unlikely to sign it, yet its introduc