‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AI
On Tuesday night, Democrats made history as they took control of the House and the Senate, and a blue wave swept through traditionally red and swing states — with the nation’s first Black woman governor elected in Georgia, the country’s first Native American woman governor elected in New Mexico, and a Maine Senator ceding to a Democrat after 30 years in office. In these and other campaigns, one theme keptcomingup: holding AI companies accountable to the American people. Now, the AI industry is left considering the prospect of regulation, data center construction slowdowns, and more.
Publicly, most major AI company CEOs have remained silent. OpenAI and Anthropic did not provide comments to The Verge; Elon Musk’s call on X to vote “red” for the midterms — the SpaceX CEO had spent close to $450 million backing Republican campaigns for the election — vanished after results poured in.
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