Where’s the AI Culture War?
You know something strange is afoot when Elon Musk comes out in favor of tech regulation. Or when Kevin McCarthy and a left-wing Joe Biden appointee agree that one particular issue is a priority. These are not people who tend to agree on, well, anything. But such are the nascent, topsy-turvy politics of artificial intelligence.
AI is not really a single issue you can be for or against the way you can with, say, guns or abortion. It is, to name just a few aspects, an economic issue (Will it replace millions of jobs?),. Those techno-utopians and techno-pessimists don’t break along strict political lines, though. Somehow, in an era when and can erupt into new fronts in the culture war virtually overnight, AI has so far managed to remain strikingly nonpartisan.
