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Correct AI & Data Center Doomsday Hype · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. Former President Barack Obama is among Democrats
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  Speaker 1: trying to make AI a wedge issue in the midterm election.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats are sounding the alarm about doomsday scenarios of AI
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  Speaker 1: destroying jobs and humanity. There are two driving forces behind
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  Speaker 1: this policy push. One is the current leadership in the
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  Speaker 1: AI field. The leading companies want to squash competition, and
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  Speaker 1: they want to be installed as the monitors of AI
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  Speaker 1: and police themselves. Both prospects are antithetical to American democratic capitalism,
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  Speaker 1: but Democrats support the AI leaders in their bid for
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  Speaker 1: monopolistic self-governance in return for political and financial support of
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  Speaker 1: Democrats in campaigns. The other driving force is China. China
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  Speaker 1: and its proxy voices use TikTok, bot farms, and other
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  Speaker 1: platforms and resources to denounce AI and the data centers
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  Speaker 1: needed to develop AI. As China favorishly ramps up its
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  Speaker 1: own efforts to build data centers and develop AI. A
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  Speaker 1: bot farm is a collection of people, software programs, and
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  Speaker 1: computing capacity large enough and strong enough to create the
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  Speaker 1: appearance across social media platforms of a massive surge in
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  Speaker 1: opinion on an issue. It's a species of fake news.
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  Speaker 1: But if you repeat something often enough and loudly enough,
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  Speaker 1: some people will believe it. I bring this up because
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  Speaker 1: anti-AI and anti-data center pronouncements are becoming part of blue-dot orthodoxy. Conservatives,
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  Speaker 1: oddly enough, are pointing out to liberals that opposing the
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  Speaker 1: creation and evolution of AI is similar to opposing the
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  Speaker 1: creation and evolution of the automobile. Tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 1: people are killed every year in America because we use
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  Speaker 1: automobiles on a mass scale. But we have concluded that
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  Speaker 1: the benefit of this technological advancement is worth the risk,
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  Speaker 1: and we have safety regulations governing those who make them
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  Speaker 1: and those who use them. We will find the right
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  Speaker 1: balance with AI. Meanwhile, make sure your blue dot relatives
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  Speaker 1: and friends know they're on the wrong side of history
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  Speaker 1: if they're fighting AI and data centers. That's Check with Chip.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Chip Maxwell. Thank you for listening.