Want to drive AI innovation? Talk about feelings

The 2026 midterms made one thing clear: Voters are “mad at” AI, as political strategist Rob Flaherty put it. On the podcast Machine Gods, Flaherty notes that “the story people are saying to themselves is, ‘This thing is in my backyard. It is being used to train stuff that’s gonna take my job away, and I get no say over any of this, and I’m really mad about that.’” An NBC exit poll found that 56% of voters said that AI and data centers were a “crucial or maj...