# An AI Union Can Give Citizens Ownership of Intelligence by Emad Mostaque > "[The champion AI] is open-source based, and you can fork it. Just like a credit union — you come together, you build a credit union, everyone puts in their money, and then it [has] services offered to others — create an AI union, as it were. All the local institutions [and] individuals in California can subscribe to [the locally owned champion-AI institution], and they [would own] 90% of it, with 10% being for the kids. Then [the institution] can raise [capital] at a market rate, which is far higher, and it can get more compute, give every citizen an agent, train up forward-deployed engineers to upgrade the institutions, and then take ownership stakes in the data centers [and] the robots. [An AI union] creates a very interesting institution that you can fill full of talented people to navigate this, and an ownership stake in that last mile of intelligence, which is where I think the value will go." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording or publication:** [Impact Theory at 1:14:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsdcF7EEvhM&t=4491s) — The poster preserves the complete source object used in the research dossier; square brackets or ellipses, when present, are visible editorial repairs inherited from the reconciled source record. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] — preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument from which this Reminder was promoted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower from AI Factory to Citizen|Vertically Integrating an AI Superpower]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public|The Immediate AI Risk Is the Public]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Emad Mostaque|Emad Mostaque]] - [[wiki/AI Capital Ownership|AI Capital Ownership]] - [[wiki/Local AI Ownership|Local AI Ownership]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "[The champion AI] is open-source based, and you can fork it. Just like a credit union — you come together, you build a credit union, everyone puts in their money, and then it [has] services offered to others — create an AI union, as it were. All the local institutions [and] individuals in California can subscribe to [the locally owned champion-AI institution], and they [would own] 90% of it, with 10% being for the kids. Then [the institution] can raise [capital] at a market rate, which is far higher, and it can get more compute, give every citizen an agent, train up forward-deployed engineers to upgrade the institutions, and then take ownership stakes in the data centers [and] the robots. [An AI union] creates a very interesting institution that you can fill full of talented people to navigate this, and an ownership stake in that last mile of intelligence, which is where I think the value will go." — Emad Mostaque, Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-emad-mostaque-ai-union-give-citizens-ownership-intelligence ```