Rep. Ro Khanna

We need data centers because AI also has a lot of good.

But what I've called for is a Singapore finish model where AI data centers aren't just extractive tools.

AI data centers would mean that the company provides renewable energy, that they pay for the electricity costs, that they use dry cooling so that you are not taking water from the land.

that any of the energy generated can be put back into geothermal.

So you're actually good for the climate.

Is there any risk for Democrats of becoming an anti-AI party?

Well, I say I'm not an AI accelerationist.

That's what the Vance president, Peter Thiel, are.

And I'm not an AI doomer.

That's the anti-AI.

I'm an AI democratist.

My belief is that why is AI polling at the lowest in terms of positivity in America compared to any other country in the world?

It's because people know that the technology could be good, but they don't trust the institutions.

They don't trust our billionaires, and they don't trust our politicians to make sure AI isn't going to eliminate their job or cause some crisis.

And so what I believe is the Democratic Party should not just be anti-AI, but what we need to do is provide a framework for how AI actually can be regulated smartly and provide jobs for every single-

Yeah.

Well, but I haven't called for the full repeal.

I've just said that you should have a repeal for algorithmic, amplified, violent content.

So not just if you post something, but if I'm Google and you're posting something that is incentivizing violence and I'm amplifying it and showing it to young kids, then I shouldn't be protected from that.

And I believe if we strip these platforms of that protection—