Artificial Intelligence Is Too Important For Government To Own

BusinessPolicyArtificial Intelligence Is Too Important For Government To OwnByJohn Tamny,Contributor.Follow AuthorJun 09, 2026, 11:30am EDTWASHINGTON, DC - JULY 23: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the "Winning the AI Race" summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump signed executive orders related to his Artificial Intelligence Action Plan during the event. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Getty ImagesCapitalism is too fast for governments. Which means Artificial Intelligence (AI) is way too fast. As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang routinely points out, thirty days in AI is an eternity. It’s his way of conveying the crucial truth to Nvidia employees that in their industry, stasis is the rapid path to obsolescence. The speed at which AI is evolving speaks to why the federal government should have no investor or ownership role in AI. This rates stress as President Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders call for just that. No thanks. It’s plainly lost on Sanders and Trump that if the federal government were given an ownership role, those in its employ wouldn’t have a faint clue what to own as is. See Jensen Huang again. The federal government’s vision of AI is so dated as to be primitive. It recalls a recent comment from Nader Khalil, co-founder of Brev.dev, a Nvidia portfolio company. He observed that more lines of code have been written this year than in all the history of computing. It vivifies what Huang means about the meaning of time in the AI sector. The present is the past. Which means government investments in AI would be dated, in addition to inept. Precious capital propping up the past. To which Sanders and Trump might say that federal government would sign up all manner of experts in the AI sector to ensure an elite collection of AI properties for taxpayers to own. The view isn’t serious. For one, no AI investor of any substance would be in the federal gov...