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Out of the Shadows At Last - Barack Obama Reemerges to Lead Democrats' Midterm Efforts with Focus on Artificial Intelligence Global Governance Plot
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[Breitbart] Former President Barack Obama, nearly a decade after his departure from the White House, has reemerged yet again as the face of the Democratic Party — this time with a focus on weaponizing rising trends in the nation skeptical of Artificial Intelligence’s arrival to help Democrats win politically and help eventually install a form of global governance to harness AI’s power and potential.
The New York Times over the weekend reported this headline: “Obama Urges Democrats to Move A.I. Oversight to the Center of Their Agenda.”
The Times’s Evan Gorelick revealed that Obama made the push at a “private fundraiser” with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the would-be Speaker of the House should Democrats win the majority in the chamber in the midterms and then he wins a speakership election on the floor — where the former president and party leader pushed the aspiring speaker to “assemble a clear framework for a public conversation about A.I. policy.”
“Once you are speaker, I would strongly urge that the Democrats put together a framework for a very public conversation,” Obama told Jeffries, per the Times which cited Obama’s office providing a partial transcript of the former president’s comments.
“This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think can be dangerous,” Obama added. “If we do get on top of it, I do think it’s beneficial. I genuinely think it’s going to accelerate, for example, drug development in ways that can help us cure diseases. I do think that this can help us figure out pathways for a clean energy future.”
Obama’s comments come as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote a massive blog post last week calling for a slowdown in AI development. Under the headline, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” Amodei argues specifically for slowing the development of AI models and technology.
“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models,” Amodei wrote. “Progress will still seem fast, and we must make wise use of the time we gain.”
Interestingly, Amodei also wrote that he agreed with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser who is also overseeing much of the AI front for the current White House — who told Breitbart News at an event last week that if the United States does not win the arms race on AI with China that everything is lost.
“There is no day after tomorrow if China wins at this,” Bessent said at the Breitbart News event. “If they were to pull away from us on AI, then nothing else would matter.”
Amodei linked to a Bloomberg News story on the Breitbart News event with Bessent, writing: “I agree with Secretary Bessent that a Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.”
“The CCP-associated projects will run the alignment risks that U.S. companies are carefully preventing, and even if they avoid those risks, they will be in a position to militarily dominate democracies (for example with AI-driven drones),” Amodei added.
Obama’s push for Democrats to weaponize fears and concerns — some real, some imagined — over the rise of AI tracks with warnings that Breitbart News’s Wynton Hall made on this front months ago when he published the bestselling book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI.
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The 'Anti-AI' Panic Is Led by...AI Companies
[HotAir] What we are seeing is a massive, pretty obviously coordinated campaign by AI researchers, companies, NGOs, and politicians to strangle competition in an industry and, as I will show, save the financial bacon of the top AI companies that are vastly overextended financially because they have made contractual commitments that they simply have no prospect of paying for.
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