Robert Guest
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first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Jun
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In a democratic primary in New York this week, one of the candidates, Alex Boris, who's a former computer scientist, was campaigning very hard on the idea of tighter guardrails for AI firms and their technology.
You had a whole bunch of political action committees backed by big AI firms spending millions of dollars to try to defeat him.
You had a bunch of different AI firms spending also millions of dollars trying to support him because they think their industry needs to be better regulated.
In the end, Bores lost, but he lost to a conventional candidate who also came out on the day of his victory and said that he too was going to campaign to regulate AI companies more strictly.
And that's just one example of how AI has become a politically explosive issue in America.
And we're going to see a lot more of this.
Well, this is interesting because America at the moment is a country where you cannot normally get Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything at all, instinctively, if one party is for it, we're against it.
But that's not true about AI.
You find that both groups have almost exactly the same fears.
You have both Republicans and Democrats really worried by the idea that human jobs might be replaced by machines, that in the future they won't have any jobs at all.
I think possibly the most important statistic here Americans are thirty times likelier to think that AI is advancing too quickly than to think it's advancing too slowly.
Only two percent think it's going too slowly.
This speaks to the real fear that people have about change and
That is going this fast.
It is really striking.
There was a Pew poll last year which found that Americans were more pessimistic about the technology than people in any of the other twenty-four countries that were surveyed.
And it breaks down into different reasons.
About two-thirds of them think that AI will reduce the number of jobs available in America.
More than seventy percent fret that it's going to exacerbate mental health problems or worry about the concentration of power in tech firms.
And then a sizable minority, forty-one percent, say they're either very or somewhat concerned that AI might actually cause human extinction.
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