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Obama and the Dems are suspiciously sounding the ‘AI apocalypse’ alarm — just in time for the midterms

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The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax. How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week.

The campaign launch was when Jacob Coxon, a low-level 27-year-old AI researcher, trumpeted his resignation from AI company Anthropic in a Wall Street Journal exclusive last week followed by a viral X thread warning AI will “kill us all.”

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade . . . They are gambling with our lives,” he claimed.

His boss, the Democrat-aligned Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, amplified Coxon’s apocalyptic message with a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, followed by a giddy interview CBS aired Sunday in which he essentially called for a one-world government to regulate AI.

He wants “the right combination of governments” to provide “some kind of joint governance [to] control the technology.

“I’m uncomfortable government didn’t build this technology.”

Bernie Sanders, who announced the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act” this month with dark warnings about the existential threat, joined him on the airwaves Sunday: “We don’t have months. We don’t have years. We got to move now.”

Anthropic’s intervention caps a summer in which a top Democrat talking point, parroted by candidates across the country, has been the perils of AI data centers. It’s a topic that, seemingly out of nowhere, now polls as a significant issue for voters, probably helped by a Chinese social media influence campaign discovered by X to stir up hostility against data centers.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the G20 this month that America would have 80 percent of the world’s computing power by 2028, so it stands to reason China wants to slow us down.

No wonder........

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