Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has said he would go further than Bernie Sanders' proposals for public ownership of major artificial intelligence companies, calling instead for "some system of public control" over the industry. His comments, made in a video interview, come as debate intensifies within the Democratic Party over how far left candidates should position themselves on economic policy, particularly regarding the growing power of AI firms.

The remarks followed a top House Democrat's rejection of similar public-ownership proposals just days earlier, underlining divisions within the party over embracing more overtly socialist economic positions. El-Sayed's stance places him alongside a wave of Democratic Socialists of America-aligned candidates who have been gaining ground in primaries, a trend Fox News has linked to broader unease among establishment Democrats about the party's leftward drift ahead of the midterms.