The Post-Midterms AI Reckoning
Foreign Policy · Rishi Iyengar, Christina Lu ·
Tech billionaires spent big, and data centers became a lightning rod.
Tech billionaires spent big, and data centers became a lightning rod.
Barely 60 seconds into his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday—two days before the U.S. midterm election—Abdul El-Sayed was asked to pick the most important issue he was hearing about from voters in Michigan, where he ran for Senate.
“I think right now we are barreling toward a world where the most important issue I hear about every day is AI,” El-Sayed said, listing a well-documented series of potential risks from artificial intelligence, including massive economic disruption to AI escaping human control. He laid out a list of proposals to mitigate those risks, including a “cabinet-level agency” to regulate AI, partial public ownership of AI companies, and “terms of engagement” for data centers that would be negotiated with local communities. He also advocated for a “full-on pause” on so-called frontier AI development, referring to the world’s most advanced models made by Silicon Valley giants such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft.
Read the full story at Foreign Policy · All coverage of this story