Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge

The issue of AI is “a hundred percent ready for the taking,” says Jesse Lehrich, a Democratic strategist who previously ran a tech accountability advocacy group and worked for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. “The question remains open as to whether Democrats are willing and able to seize that opportunity.” AI issues currently include a lot of different things, from monitoring and restricting the development of frontier models to dealing with the effects of job displacement or data centers’ energy demands. Across both parties, lawmakers are still figuring out where to put their stakes in the ground, and early congressional proposals have yet to gain broad consensus.