Obama Pushing to Make AI Doomerism a Centerpiece of Democrat Agenda

Barack Hussein Obama told Democrats: They badly need to grab hold of the debate over artificial intelligence and impeding its progress a central pillar of their agenda.

Of course he did. There is one infallible rule in 21st century American politics — anything the Democrats are behind and pushing, is disastrous for America. Every time.

Thus: The sudden pressing of the “panic” button by talking heads on the left.

New York Times: Former President Barack Obama warned during a recent private fund-raising event that artificial intelligence technology could be “dangerous” if not properly managed, as he implored Democrats to aggressively develop political and governing agendas to prioritize the issue in the coming years. In his remarks on Thursday, which have not been previously reported, Mr. Obama urged Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the House minority leader, to assemble a clear framework for a public conversation about A.I. policy, should Democrats win back the House in the midterm elections, according to a partial transcript provided by Mr. Obama’s office.

Politico adds: Obama said AI development would be “one of my central agendas” if he were running for president, throwing down a gauntlet as the shadow 2028 Democratic primary debate responded to the AI leaders’ calls.

Make no mistake, Communist China is not slowing down and they are making huge gain using American (much of it stolen) technology. Why would we deliberately handicap ourselves while Communist China races ahead, weaponizing artificial intelligence for military power, mass surveillance, cyberwarfare and global domination?

Why would Barack Hussein Obama deliberately handicap America while Communist China races ahead—weaponizing artificial intelligence for military power, mass surveillance, cyberwarfare and global domination?

America must not unilaterally disarm in the most consequential technological race of the century.

America cannot surrender the future because a handful of AI executives have discovered that apocalypse is good for business.

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The ‘Anti-AI’ Panic Is Led by…AI Companies

David Strom

On Friday, I wrote about the obviously professional PR campaign launched last week against the rapid development of so-called “artificial intelligence,” kicked off by the resignation of mid-level AI employee Jacob Coxon.

Coxon came out of nowhere, almost literally. He worked at OpenAI training “frontier models” (the most sophisticated and up-to-date at any time), then moved to Anthropic and worked there for a few months before resigning. He announced his resignation on X, using an account with almost no activity or followers, and it took off after top AI company executives promoted it.

Coxon warned darkly that AI could kill us all—a common-enough worry and articulated by many people far more prominent and interesting than a 27-year-old AI trainer, and hence unremarkable in itself — but somehow the Wall Street Journal had the “exclusive” story before the X post even went up. Almost every tech company CEO has said the same thing many times, but for some reason Coxon’s warning became a top national story.

Coxon’s resignation has kicked off a firestorm, and it’s clear that it wasn’t really Coxon who lit the match. His resignation was the hook, but it was used to push a narrative that had been pre-positioned for some time to fundamentally reshape the AI industry. Whether Coxon’s resignation was staged or not, the PR campaign around it certainly isn’t spontaneous.

The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic seized on Coxon’s warnings, agreeing that everything must change; Democrats proposed legislation to ban “superintelligence” and jail anyone for up to 20 years for pursuing it, and both OpenAI and Anthropic argued for massive government regulations and…the hamstringing or outright banning of their competitors.

He goes on CNN and says nothing new. He has zero evidence or documentation to back up any of his claims. He struggles so hard to find examples that he has to use the Hugging Face one from OpenAI, not Anthropic. Which we already know about.

It’s all conjecture and wild claims from the same people who have been wrong over and over.

Remember when Andrew Yang and others claimed all the truck driving jobs would go away? That was 10 years ago.

Remember when Dario said unemployment would hit 50% in 18 months? Well, we don’t have 50% unemployment, and it’s been more than 18 months.

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