Christopher Kahn

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The Excerpt · The AI backlash uniting a divided America · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

So a lot

Of this anxiety really revolves around AI potentially leading to mass job loss.

And so that's a scenario that even tech executives themselves have warned about.

You had open AI CEO Sam Altman, who's described difficult economic transition that will be ushered in by AI.

Anthropic CEO said that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white costs.

Jobs.

And most recently, Microsoft founder Bill Gates warned that many jobs will disappear forever and that AI has a potential to become the worst source of injustice.

So when you have these people who seemingly would have the most knowledge about these systems and what their impact could be, warning about adverse impacts of the economy and job loss, it's no wonder that people are anxious about a future dominated by AI.

So flock cameras are these AI powered license plate readers, and they're they're in about 49 states across the country and they scan billions of vehicles every month.

And so, unlike regular surveillance cameras, law enforcement can search the data taken in by these cameras without a warrant.

And so with these flock cameras, people are worried about privacy, mass surveillance, police misconduct, and the backlash really has intensified and

in the la over the last few months, after reports of immigration authorities accessing flock data, officers abusing the network to stalk women, and misreads that have led to innocent people being held at gunpoint.

So like data centers, people have been stating protests and packing city council meetings to get these cameras removed.

And this year about a hundred jurisdictions across the country have either paused or canceled

Their contracts with Flock.

The company in turn has made changes to prevent police misconduct and assuage the concerns about how long it holds on to the vehicle data.

As well as similar to data centers, we're seeing local, state, and federal politicians increasingly moving towards the public view.

So they're blasting these projects in public statements, issuing moratoriums, and in the case of Flock, opening a congressional investigation.

So this is kind of an open question, but it's clear from the polling and how quickly data centers and flock cameras became villains in the eyes of Americans that people are very skeptical of these technologies and the companies behind them.

A sociology professor at the University of Chicago, who I spoke with, said that he thinks that broad fears over AI are fueling the backlash against data centers and flock cameras to s to at least some degree.

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