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How to build a pro-AI majority — before we squander America’s future

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Gov. Kathy Hochul’s first-in-the-nation moratorium on large data centers carries one big lesson: Artificial intelligence has a politics problem that no amount of lobbying will fix.

AI is one of the most valuable technologies ever to emerge, yet it’s increasingly losing the political battle for public support.

Without that support, America will squander its huge advantages and fail to benefit from what it’s built.

That’s why AI’s advocates need to consciously cultivate a pro-AI majority — and fast.

The polls tell the story: New Yorkers backed a data-center moratorium by better than two to one in last month’s Siena survey.

Nationally, seven in ten Americans now oppose a data center in their area, which is up roughly 30 percentage points in under a year.

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Hochul, in other words, isn’t defying public opinion; she’s following it.

The risk of course is that more restrictions could be coming, including punitive taxes, permitting refusals and local vetoes — all aimed at the most consequential technology of the era.

But good news: The raw material for a pro-AI majority exists.

Assembling it, though, requires thinking........

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