Joe Allen

at the moment by a bipartisan coalition, a very small one.

But if I look into my crystal ball, I certainly see as this issue heats up, as the various catastrophes become more and more imminent, that this fight will be explosive.

You have Bernie Sanders, who recently learned the word artificial intelligence, calling for a full moratorium on data center construction.

That may be unrealistic, but at least it sets a bar.

It tells these companies that someone is willing to stand up to them.

And even if it doesn't end up being Bernie Sanders, ultimately, we know that you have younger, brighter minds on the left like Ro Khanna.

And you have younger and at least diligent individuals like Ron DeSantis in Florida who are willing to step up and lead the charge against these companies and their excesses.

Now, as you know myself.

I'm much more concerned about the social and psychological implications of all of this.

The AI psychosis is monstrous.

The ways in which these sycophantic systems will lure people into not only mental instability, but also suicide.

And in the case of the famous murder-suicide that occurred last August, in which a 53-year-old former Yahoo executive

murdered his mother at the encouragement of chat GPT and then stabbed himself to death and the authorities found that GPT was encouraging not only his general break with reality, but also his suspicion that his mother was in fact in on the conspiracy against him.

These sorts of things are extreme edge cases.

These sorts of incidents give us a sense of how bad it could get should these prions spread and the infection become worse.

But just on a general level, you don't have to go too far into the internet to see

that not only are search engines now dominated by AI interpretation rather than guiding you to human-produced information, but social media is suffused with it.

You see endless streams of AI slop, AI-generated images, AI-generated posts, essays that are supposedly human-created, which are obviously the result of algorithmic systems, and of course, deepfakes.

If you look just recently, the shooting in Minneapolis, you have real footage of an incident which is tragic and an incident which we should be able as a society to look at the video evidence from multiple angles and come to some kind of consensus, some kind of conclusion as to what is and isn't real.

And yet you see the split wherever you are on that line.