aceCould Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe? | Jerel Ezell
The Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in modern American politics. He’s praised by progressives, begrudgingly tolerated by moderate Democrats and largely demonized by Republicans. He’s also uniquely positioned to forge an all-too-elusive thread of political kinship between these perpetually-at-odds groups with his bold but contentious plan for reining in AI, called AI Under Democracy. And it couldn’t come at a better time. According to a po…
Large tech firms hold major stakes in frontier AI labs, which the author says creates friction between revenue goals and public safety, while datacenters bring noise, pollution and rising utility concerns.
The piece is an opinion column advocating a campaign proposal, and the author concedes public control may be an entirely different can of worms that critics frame as socialism.
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