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‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms

Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’Brian Leeland, a 79-year-old Democratic voter in Detroit, had enough. Frustrated by the way the US media covers this febrile political era, from Donald Trump’s Washington to political campaigns across the country, he contacted the Guardian.“Your […]

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As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails

It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mountsDonald Trump’s sons, through a series of AI-linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal in the past year. His longtime

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Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow

President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled cautionDonald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to help monitor the technology, though he gave almost no details about either plan.As global fears over AI have grown, especially in

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Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? | Politics Weekly America

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and formal guardrails to be introduced by the US government. But President Trump is not moved by the doomsday predictions, calling them a ‘hoax’. What is behind his affection for the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland and Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery discuss Continue reading…

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Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a ‘hoax’? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake MontgomeryWatch

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The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It’s a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safeIt is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing,

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Decoding America: Why won’t Donald Trump regulate AI? – podcast

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s weekly US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at whether there is any appetite across the political spectrum to put guardrails on artificial intelligence as around the world existential fears mount that the technology is developing too quickly. They also explain what the latest supreme court

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As the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John Crace

AI probably thinks a world that can elect Trump as president is so messed up it deserves to be put out of its miseryWe can all sleep easy. In a post on his Truth Social account, Donald Trump has declared that fears over artificial intelligence were all a hoax dreamed up by conspiracy theorists. Obviously

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AI can wipe us out – so why can’t it do Guardian cryptic crosswords? | Brief letters

AI capabilities | Trump’s judgment | Gardening attire | Death in English literature | Tautologies | Nominative determinismAI may be capable of “taking over the entire internet” (OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development, 13 September), but it is rubbish at tackling the Guardian cryptic crossword.John HoughamReading, Berkshire• Donald Trump is

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Democrats say supreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot restrictions will ensure ‘safe, secure and accurate elections’ – US politics live

Comments come after court on Monday rejected the president’s mail ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm electionsSupreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm electionsHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Lawmakers have given their support to the supreme court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm

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