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There’s a prudent path forward for AI — and pols need to push it over politics

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The midterm elections are right around the corner, and both parties are about as popular as a Monday-morning visit to the DMV.

The time-tested solution?

Find a scapegoat, go negative and blame the other side.

This year the weaponized bogeyman is artificial intelligence.

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A new poll from Politico has the grisly details: 63% of Americans think AI has the potential to “destroy humanity.”

A majority of both Democrats and Republicans now think AI could herald the apocalypse.

That’s quite a sea change in less than a year: In December 2025, a poll from Navigator Research found Americans split roughly equally among those favoring data centers, opposing data centers or ambivalent.

It’s not hard to figure out what happened.

Days before the new Politico poll, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stressed the same existential stakes, arguing AI industry titans “owe it to humanity to try” to slow down the Frankenstein’s monster they’ve unleashed on the masses.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a “sociopathic lack of concern” for humanity, according to a loose-lipped company board member.

Elon Musk is calling for an industry slowdown,........

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