Democrats Pick Their Next Boogeyman to Regulate AI Into Oblivion
An investigation into the viral resignation of an Anthropic AI researcher who quit after roughly six weeks at the company and previously worked as an activist on multiple Democratic political campaigns, with his resignation thread — stating that AI companies are "racing straight to self-improving super intelligence and gambling with our lives" — surpassing 155 million views and generating same-day coverage from the Wall Street Journal and Axios. The report characterizes the incident as part of a coordinated public relations and lobbying effort to build political support for aggressive AI…
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