Is China Driving Anti-AI Sentiment?

Some proponents of rapid AI adoption view the backlash against the technology with suspicion. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Debates over data centers and the need for additional AI safety guardrails have scrambled the American political spectrum. In a sign of the times, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and MAGA heavyweight Steve Bannon both called for stricter regulation of AI from the stage of the Pro-Human Assembly summit in Washington, D.C., this week. Mark Sawyer is a reporter for The Dispatch based in Washington, D.C., and the inaugural Journalism Excellence Fellow through The Fund for American Studies. He previously worked as an investigator and open-source intelligence analyst focused on a range of issues including election integrity, national security, and Russia's use of disinformation and the internet to pursue its foreign policy goals. His favorite professional experiences have been serving as an election observer in Ukraine and Moldova. When Mark is not going down rabbit holes for his latest article, you can probably find him experimenting in the kitchen, birdwatching in the city, or convincing his unsuspecting friends to play a complicated board game. More We Think You’d Like