{"id":1020717,"date":"2026-07-14T08:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020717"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:20:24","slug":"tech-layoffs-are-surging-now-69-americans-want-ai-firms-to-share-their-wealth-with-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/tech-layoffs-are-surging-now-69-americans-want-ai-firms-to-share-their-wealth-with-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech layoffs are surging. Now 69% Americans want AI firms to share their wealth with public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As US tech companies pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence, workers are increasingly worried about what the AI boom could mean for their jobs. Tech layoffs have added to fears over job security, even as companies ramp up capital spending on AI and corporate profits remain strong. Now, a majority of Americans appear to want the public to get a direct share of the wealth created by the technology. <\/p>\n<p>A recent national survey found that 69% of Americans support \u201cforcing\u201d AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund. The survey of 1,690 adults was conducted by research firm Verasight in June and published earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As US tech companies pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence, workers are increasingly worried about what the AI boom could mean for their jobs. Tech layoffs have added to fears over job security, even as companies ramp up capital spending on AI and corporate profits remain strong. Now, a majority of Americans appear to want the public to get a direct share of the wealth created by the technology. A recent national survey found that 69% of Americans support \u201cforcing\u201d AI companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund. The survey of 1,690 adults [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020740,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020717\/revisions\/1020740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}