Rep. Ro Khanna
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Well, I say I'm not an AI accelerationist.
That's what the Vance president, Peter Thiel, are.
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-
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 protectionâ
from these more extreme cases, then we would disincentivize the most extreme hate that is being spewed and pushed to a lot of our kids and people around the country.
Well, first of all, there's a choice, and the choice is do we tax billionaires 5% one time over five years, or do we have 2 million people lose health care?
And this is specific to California, we should clarify.
And some of the people who are opposed to this are saying, well, the union is so self-interested.
Yes, they're self-interested.
They're looking out for their home care workers and the nurses' aides and people who are doing elder care.