Both democrats and republicans have a net -40% approval of AI: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/11/06/republicans-democrats-now-equally-concerned-about-ai-in-daily-life-but-views-on-regulation-differ/
It doesn’t seem like AI has any political allies. That’s REALLY bad when politicians inevitably start passing bills to limit data centers or bring down the copyright hammer on AI training.
The best we can hope for is lobbying from AI companies will be enough to prevent this, but it’s not always effective when public pressure is too great and there’s no one to advocate for them. For example, Bidens IRA bill also allowed Medicare to negotiate drug prices down, which the Pharma lobby tried to remove but failed. Money doesn’t always win. Same for Cuomo’s loss in the NYC mayoral election despite far outspending Mamdani.
The US will shoot itself in the foot once again like they did with renewable energy, stem cell research, nuclear power, education, tariffs, etc.
China won’t really pick up the slack either because the CCP sees AGI as a potential threat to their power: https://time.com/7308857/china-isnt-ignoring-ai-regulation-the-u-s-shouldnt-either/
Without the US pressuring them to keep up, they have no incentive to.
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