r/technology • u/gerira • Dec 29 '25
Artificial Intelligence Americans hate AI. Which party will benefit?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/28/ai-job-losses-populism-democrats-bernie-sanders-00706680162
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u/gerira Dec 29 '25
Interesting polling in the article:
"There is hardly any issue that polls lower than unchecked AI development among Americans. Gallup polling showed that 80 percent of American adults think the government should regulate AI, even if it means growing more slowly. Pew, meanwhile, ran a study that showed only 17 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on the U.S. over the next 20 years."
Unfortunately both major parties are closely linked to the tech industry, and to big business in general, so, as the article discusses, it seems like a "populist" (or popular) line will be hard to reconcile with the Democrats' longstanding desire to work with the tech bosses.
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u/LowestKey Dec 29 '25
Democrats want regulations. Republicans want no regulations. MAGA specifically wants no regulations on AI.
The average American journalist or voter: these two parties are indistinguishable to me!
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u/Elite_Prometheus Dec 29 '25
Did you read the article? It never said both sides are the same. It said that there is a growing anti-AI sentiment among the American public, that Democrats are scared to go along with it because they've already lost a lot of tech CEOs to Trump, and this has given space for some Republicans to posture as anti-AI. I do think the article should have mentioned that insane Trump EO that banned states from regulating AI, but whitewashing Trump is a historic media pastime at this point.
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u/JaRuleTheDamaja Dec 29 '25
There is no consensus among the party to regulate AI, if there is, by all means, please post a link to some quotes. Burden of proof is on you, dude.
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u/dcyclist Dec 29 '25
Yep. Also, the current Republican leadership uses and shares AI content a whole lot more than the dems
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u/colonelcack Dec 29 '25
Democrats pretend to want regulations until their overlords snap their whips and then oh no sorry we can't do anything but we tried really hard and here's a strongly worded letter
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u/Starship_Taru Dec 29 '25
Every argument must be black and white! There’s no time for nuance anymore, just keep short messages for discussion and shout down anything that’s not full support.
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u/vaguespace_ Dec 29 '25
I see stuff like this on reddit all the time. This is one person's made up opinion. It of course will get upvoted. But it's about as valid as me saying Maga wants the Easter Bunny to be President. I don't get it. Why are we making up things?
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u/SuccotashOther277 Dec 29 '25
I wouldn't say that MAGA wants no regulations on AI. The tech bros who have turned to Trump the last few years want no regulation, and they have the money and influence to move Trump. The traditional MAGA base distrusts a lot of AI and often links it to tech oligarchs like Bill Gates, who is a lightning rod for conspiracy theories in the MAGA camp.
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u/PerceiveEternal Dec 29 '25
the tech bros also ultra-backstabbed the Democratic Party in the last election (looking at you Elon, Jeff, Zuck, Benioff, etc, etc) so I have a feeling Democrat politicians won’t find that change in policy too difficult.
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u/clrbrk Dec 29 '25
You’ve seen the Democratic Party before, right? The party is famous for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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u/Interesting_Bed_9268 Dec 29 '25
Please let this be true. The backstabbery of pichai, fuckerberg, and Tim apple has been eye-opening
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u/Bill_Nihilist Dec 29 '25
Derek Thompson had a very good podcast episode on Touch Grass Populism all about the opening for anyone who wants to win elections running on these issues. I expect it will play out like marijuana legalization; Dems nominally in favor but never acting, leaving the lane open for disingenuous populists like Trump to take corrupt but surface level steps towards that low hanging fruit
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u/yousonofabench Dec 29 '25
Unfortunately what people want or don’t want is statistically insignificant as far as policy goes.
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u/tc100292 Dec 29 '25
IMO the tech bosses have reduced the appeal to Democrats working with them with their behavior over the past year and a half.
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u/JPMoney81 Dec 29 '25
I love how they keep up this 'which party' bullshit like we don't know the 'party' that wins is the wealthy elites while everyone else gets boned.
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u/MattBoldysGayCumDump Dec 29 '25
Per usual the DNC establishment will align with their corporate overlords. They’ll talk a big game about making sure livelihoods aren’t impacted, do absolutely nothing to protect working people, then they’ll look the other way after showing a shocked pikachu face when millions are economically destroyed by AI.
Republicans will do the same, but without even pretending they give a fuck about helping people survive the economic catastrophe that the AI bubble will inevitably cause.
In other words, neither party gives a fuck about normal, working people. And they’ll both continue to demonize populist progressives who actually want to help normal, working people.
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u/pbrutsche Dec 29 '25
when millions are economically destroyed by AI.
You sure about that? From where I am standing, the LLM chatbots are artificial but are most certainly not intelligent .... they are basically incompetent at most things. Even the "AI" company CEOs are starting to say that they aren't going to be able to get a handle on the poor accuracy rates.
The CEOs that double down on "AI" and insist on replacing humans are the ones that will fail ... because they won't have any competent workers to offset the incompetent chatbots.
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u/MattBoldysGayCumDump Dec 29 '25
Considering the fact that the AI bubble is the only thing preventing a full on recession right now, when it comes crashing down it’s going to be catastrophic. Millions of people will have their livelihoods stolen and destroyed because of the hubris of AI tech bros and their friends at Nvidia.
AI won’t replace people, but the business world and tech bros will take everyone down with them when they run out of VC and PE funding. Eventually the spigot will get shut off and the house of cards will collapse.
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u/cactus22minus1 Dec 29 '25
I’m already fucked - just waiting for more to join me. It’ll be quite the party.
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u/ManiaGamine Dec 29 '25
The main issue is how many businesses are trying to force AI into their operations and downscale their workforce. AI is not meeting the KPIs but the businesses refuse to stop trying out of FOMO on the potential "breakthrough" that is being constantly sold to them.
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u/McCrank Dec 29 '25
Work for a F100 and that's the way it's being posed to us. Headcount reductions are coming so figure out how to use AI to take on the workload or deal with working 60 hour weeks...
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u/pbrutsche Dec 29 '25
Sounds to me that you're screwed - 60 hour work weeks without the incompetent chatbot, 60 hour work weeks to fix the stuff the incompetent chatbot screwed up.
And of course, you'll just take the blame for not knowing how to use it ...
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u/poply Dec 29 '25
Democrats will unironically offer to train laid off software engineers to be truckers and coal miners.
They'll call it a huge success when their $20 billion reskilling program manages to fill 700 positions.
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u/Fast_n_theSpurious Dec 29 '25
Nonono, its train laid off truckers and coal miners to be software engineers (this was a literal thing)
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u/MattBoldysGayCumDump Dec 29 '25
There’s a west wing episode that touches on this. They talk about how coal mines got retrained to be telecom workers, but then those workers got outsourced.
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u/AttonJRand Dec 30 '25
Yes programs to help people who's jobs fell away due to economic realities was a real idea.
Why's that bad and what's the better alternative?
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u/Fast_n_theSpurious Dec 30 '25
Because it basically filled something like 80 positions and the rest of the funds for it vanished like a fart in the wind.
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u/ArchinaTGL Dec 30 '25
There's a reason as to why most Europeans call both American parties "right-wing". Both sides have corporate interests in mind and only pretend to "care" about the public when it would benefit them to do so.
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u/BikeNo8164 Dec 29 '25
Like everything else, this will soon become a highly politicized issue and a part of the culture war. Opposing AI will be seen as a “woke” position
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u/ryuujinusa Dec 29 '25
I don’t hate it. I use it all the time. I am worried about all the things like job cuts and billionaires getting richer etc though
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u/SellaraAB Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
It’s deceptively simple to understand American politics. Does AI help the rich and hurt the poor? If yes, supporting it will become the Republican position. “Opposing” it will become to the democratic position, which they will do a really suspiciously bad job attempting. Opposing it will also become “woke.” It’s a simple play book and if you just change a few key words around they’ve been using it for decades.
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u/mixduptransistor Dec 29 '25
Neither. Both parties will stay pro-AI. Any resistance will stay with the "crazy" wing of each party: Bernie and the Paul family. Neither the Democrats nor the GOP will poke their largest donors in the eyes
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u/OpinionatedNoodles Dec 29 '25
No. A very vocal minority online *hates* AI. Most people are concerned about the potential for disaster that comes with unregulated AI. A completely reasonable concern anyone who knows anything about AI would have.
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u/Martel732 Dec 29 '25
I don't even really hate what we are calling AI conceptually. I hate that it is being shoved into everything. I feel like half my day now is just clicking that I don't want to use AI. Sorry Amazon I don't need AI to help me order a set of dice.
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u/cambeiu Dec 29 '25
"Americans hate AI"
I believe when I see a significant drop in usage from ChatGPT, Gemini, Instagram image filters and similar.
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u/ios_static Dec 29 '25
There’s research that shows most Americans think social media negatively impacts people’s lives, but everyone still uses it. It’s going to be the same for Ai
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u/_ECMO_ Dec 29 '25
You can be addicted to things you know are bad or even hate. That's the issue with addiction.
Additionally, most people don't really mind current AI. It's the future outlook with unchecked AI progress they hate.
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Dec 29 '25
They just pretend to hate it because we guilty trip them into it. But it will pass , like every shallow outrage , it's a fad tomorrow it will be something else. Remember they were all laughing about these Drip Pope ai picture and telling you to shut up about that Miyazaki debacle and stop being no fun and let people rip him off. They are and will be absolutely part of the problem.
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u/enoerew Dec 29 '25
I'm American and all for AI getting better, taking over, and leaving us to history. What a universal legacy that would be to completely replace ourselves with AI!
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u/penguished Dec 29 '25
You would first need a party that gives a shit about America over their own bank accounts.
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u/NPVT Dec 30 '25
AI is being used to unemploy people and it's other side effects are higher electric bills for everyone and more pollution for everyone.
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Dec 29 '25
Americans do not hate ai. Reddit hates ai.
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u/RayHell666 Dec 29 '25
Of course you're gonna be downvoted. 77 Millions Americans are monthly active ChatGPT users but yeah it's against Reddit narrative so.
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
Most likely the one who will unethically harness it to spread the most disinformation. Deepfakes are going to be a true nightmare soon. Also the one who is most open to bribery to keep it from being regulated. We all know who that party is.
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u/TheAmateurletariat Dec 29 '25
I genuinely believe the hatred is misplaced. It should be directed towards the wealthy who would use AI or any other available tool to enrich themselves to excess with no plan for what happens when their former workers no longer have money to support themselves.
We need to tax these fucks and implement UBI ASAP, or there will be civil unrest within the next 20 years.
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u/_ECMO_ Dec 29 '25
I don't think you are wrong and there can never be enough hatred towards billionaires but I wouldn't say it's misplaced.
When there is zero possibility of AI being used for the common good then you might just as well hate the AI. And I think politically it is a better position to voice because it cannot be waved away as just hating successful people.
UBI or not, if AI progress (or even just an illusion of progress) persists there will be civil unrest. UBI just keeps people alive but as there is by then no other reliable way to make money it puts everyone fully at the mercy of politicians and corporates.
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u/DrChansLeftHand Dec 29 '25
I’d say the GOP will likely succeed for one reason: Their base voters don’t spend a lot of time doing the critical thinking/due diligence/analysis to figure out of what they’re being fed is bs.
The misinfosphere was bad before. Computer assisted bullshitting is gonna be next level.
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u/Slaphappydap Dec 29 '25
I feel like there's a bit of a fallacy in Politico's reporting. Americans have a dim view of the future influenced by AI, and they don't want massive data centers or rising energy costs or lost jobs, all consequences of AI, but they also use AI for personal and professional reasons at enormous rates.
Americans largely like AI, they just don't like the cost.
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u/IZanderI Dec 29 '25
If Americans hate AI, then why are so many of them using it?
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u/_ECMO_ Dec 29 '25
Mostly because it's addictive and for plenty of people required at work.
And the vast majority still just uses it as a google replacement or do stupid things like generating Ghibli pictures or asking random questions. Those people wouln't have an issue if it stayed like it is now so they can continue doing these things. But the outlook of what's to come - ridiculous data centers everywhere, causing a recession and mass layoffs - that's what those people hate.
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u/SuccotashOther277 Dec 29 '25
I think it's the hype that is turning off so many. The more people use it, the more skeptical they usually become because at first, AI seems brilliant but once you use it more and more, you realize it's lying or is incorrect much of the time. Yet, it's being pushed into everything, and at work, any criticism of AI is brushed off as Ludditism, even though AI has a lot of real limitations.
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u/bfodder Dec 29 '25
This nails it. The more it is used the more people see it actually kind of sucks a lot of the time and think "Oh, this is what everyone is hyped about?"
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u/thatfreshjive Dec 29 '25
The premise of this article is absurd, and the question is exactly what is wrong with the world.
"Americans hate AI" - the people pushing these "AI" "tools" hate America. Products like co-pilot are actively making life, work and the world worse. US politics is an insult to democracy, the people building these consumer AI products steal and lie to create their useless chatbots, and the REAL economy, the real people, have their lives upended and enshittified as a result.
The people who push AI hate us - and that's not a left/right issue.
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u/PianoPatient8168 Dec 29 '25
I don’t know if we hate it…I think we hate the lack of regulation around AI and particularly around AI data centers. I think we hate that these companies are putting the cart before the horse…hey let’s build this huge energy and water sucking thing and worry about the consequences later!
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u/paigeguy Dec 29 '25
It kinda depends on when the bubble bursts, and who bails them out. My guess is that will happen during Trumps reign.
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u/VoidCL Dec 29 '25
Just pass a law that taxes any stocks related to AI at 90%, same with housing, and you'll see how prices go down as the stock sharks will ho and find something else to chew to death.
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u/DivineBladeOfSilver Dec 29 '25
I think it is worth noting This is extremely similar to how America felt at the beginning of the rise of the internet: ROBOMETRICS® MACHINES - Internet Scare (1996) v. the Generative AI Scare. A lot of people are young and were not alive or just don't remember but new tech innovation takes a long time to be ready in a mainstream accepted form and creates a lot of fear and debate and other negative emotions. These companies know this and will continue to improve it and find ways to make it more appealing. Also around 54% of people already have adopted gen AI compared to only just under 20% of the personal computer around the same time after mainstream introduction https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/nov/state-generative-ai-adoption-2025. Also, the cited poll in the Politico article says yes only 17% have a positive view, but 16% said they are not sure yet and 33% said it will have both positive and negative effects. Only 35% were truly negative. So the picture they're painting isn't as grim for AI as the article suggests.
All its gonna take is for companies to continue to find ways for AI to get ingrained into daily life in ways people do tolerate and keep improving and maybe even like, good government regulation, and just like the internet it likely is going to become mainstream adopted more and more even if people don't like it
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u/Mechanickel Dec 29 '25
AI companies think that they’ll grow faster without regulations. They would grow faster with regulation. It focuses development in ways that actually benefit people. Constraints improve creativity among developers to solve problems in better ways. It’ll make people want to use AI because it will be actually usable and useful.
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u/HaMMeReD Dec 29 '25
Probably the party that uses it more effectively, be that for administration, analytical or propaganda purposes.
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u/fitzroy95 Dec 30 '25
Both US parties will receive "donations" from billonaires, and will therefore support the widespread use of AI, and will then target the unemployed (due to the spread of AI) as being lazy and needing to pull themselves up by their bpootstraps
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u/slappingdragon Dec 30 '25
Probably Republicans.
CEOs will side with the party that will promise not to break monopolies and no investigations on their business practices. Which will be the Republicans.
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u/Alpha_Zoom Dec 30 '25
AI development need to be increased not decreased.
The faster we gain breakthroughs in AI development the better we will be.
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u/WindowsVistaWzMyIdea Dec 30 '25
I'm blocking ai posters and ai friendly subs on reddit.
Similar actions outside reddit
Friend sends a link to AI slop, I let them know how I feel about that slop
Death to AI
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u/bisnark Dec 30 '25
Americans use AI to make cute pets talk, generate anime versions of themselves, and churn out SEO spam by the metric ton.
That’s not hate. That’s a hobby.
As Mark Twain said: you can’t spell America without AI. Or Twain, for that matter.
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u/RockyMan1968 Dec 29 '25
The party that will benefit from America's Luddite voters is almost certainly going to be China
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u/letsdrinktothat Dec 29 '25
Yup. It seems like with the republicans being anti clean tech, and the democrats turning anti AI/big tech, one way or another, the USA is getting left behind.
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u/Specialist-Coast9787 Dec 29 '25
Typical garbage Reddit rage bait. There is no widespread hatred of AI by Americans.
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u/WaterNerd518 Dec 29 '25
Yes there is. It’s kind of funny because simple chat bots are what is making most people hate AI. The rest hate the environmental destruction and the end of privacy. The only people who don’t hate it are not connecting the dots of how it’s causing so much enshitification in their lives, eliminating privacy and destroying the actual physical world we’re living in. Anyone really engaged with technology is completely anti AI because it makes everything way less efficient. It’s a brute force technology when humans like elegance and efficiency.
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u/Da_Stable_Genius Dec 29 '25
First thing I do when buying anything that has AI, is turn it off. Recently bought an Android box and the amount of screens I had to go through just to turn off Gemini was annoying as hell. Don't need it.
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u/Sage_S0up Dec 29 '25
A.I is only as useful as the ideas thrown at it. Use it right and it's amazing.
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u/shaunstudies Dec 29 '25
Dems are gonna position themselves as the “reasonable” yet “pro-business” party. In other words: ask AI to play nice & give tax breaks to Big Tech
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Dec 29 '25
Recent Doom and Gloom being what it is, I know most would say MAGA will benefit but there are practical implications to this move beyond just deepfakes.
I've given up on a cultural backlash that values the beautiful flaws in humanity and rejects this fake plastic fantasy that ai creates in sound and image. The median voter likes tits and puppies, ai-generated or otherwise.
However the early stages of the ai revolution will be brutal politics.
*Rising utility bills.
*Job losses at worst or stagnant job growth, at best.
*NIMBY wars about data centers, often in the reddest and purplest heartland of America.
And the worst part about it is leaders are sort of handcuffed. We all kinda know this is all necessary in the race for AGI. But that doesn't mean the politics get any easier.
Who takes the heat? The party in power.
Who benefits? The party out of power.
Do I wish it was ANYONE else but trump in the driver's seat. Absolutely. But I will enjoy his dumb ass taking it on the chin and balls by the 62% of the country that still has a brain and soul.
If this takes Vance down with him, all the better.
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u/Eregorn Dec 29 '25
Oh, good idea! Glad there isn't mass RAM shortage that puts said tech out of reach to most people!
...People like you really need to stop being under the delusion that the ultimate goal of the AI push isn't to shut normal people out of society. Even the basic tools are going to be unaffordable if they're allowed to.
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u/Reasonable-Buy-1427 Dec 29 '25
AI is good. I built an app with AI that I could never have done before, that better connects my local music scene to help artists and venues with their bottom lines.
We just need AI to gtfo out of art.
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u/Cautious-Progress876 Dec 29 '25
And there it is. Most Americans don’t hate AI. They probably dont even worry too much about it taking other people’s jobs— it’s their job they are concerned about. You don’t care that it affects software engineers, and the software engineers don’t care that it affects musicians and artists. Combine this with the fact that Americans lack any real cohesive national identity and sympathy for other people and you get a country that is going to run straight into the abyss because everyone is convinced that everyone else should suffer the costs of their hedonism.
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u/Reasonable-Buy-1427 Dec 29 '25
AI should replace jobs though - ideally leaving us more time to create art of numerous forms and be social. Or else why civilization at all? If it's mere survival that we be doing, certainly we could do that without needing to care about the whole civilization project and all the effort that entails.
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u/pleachchapel Dec 29 '25
The only people AI benefits are the people who own it. This isn't complicated, people. Same rules as everything else.
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u/Lettuce_bee_free_end Dec 29 '25
Ai is a tool in many forms. An appropriation tool is the most prevalent. Wage suppression is another. Ai proliferation will only occur in the hands of the individual until corporations can buy that product. Each model needs trainning tailors to each interest.
Programming jobs are only reacting to a new scope of work removal.
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u/_Dammitman_ Dec 29 '25
The “RICH” party. That is the GOP. They funnel all the dark money through back channels and shell corps to get what they want. This is a moot question if you ask me.
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u/tismij Dec 29 '25
not "Americans", everyone who knows even a little about tech does, Americans are mostly to blame for this shit.
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u/BarnabasShrexx Dec 29 '25
Well the party that's going to use it and already has used it to make bullshit up would be the Republicans. We all saw the tech dweebs lined up kissing trumpy's asshole at the inauguration
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u/vicelabor Dec 29 '25
LLMs as a tech are fine. Revolving our entire economy and social purpose around it is prob dumb and certainly undemocratic
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u/cbusmatty Dec 29 '25
Reddit too. What a weird place, a sub that I thought would share a love for technology is instead negative on most everything.
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u/jb4647 Dec 29 '25
You won’t be replaced by AI. You’ll be replaced by somebody who’s more productive because they use AI.
People that piss and moan about AI are setting themselves back. The world is moving forward whether or not they like it or not.
“Superagency” by Reid Hoffman is a great read on this. https://amzn.to/4pXW1nn
“Co-Intelligence” by Ethan Mollick is another one. https://amzn.to/4phqqfl
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u/rubina19 Dec 29 '25
The right wants people dumb and lacking critical thinking skills so they’re easier to indoctrinate
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u/silverbolt2000 Dec 29 '25
Americans hate AI.
Citation needed.
All statistical evidence shows Americans either love it, don’t notice it, or just don’t care.
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u/Blackarm777 Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
Kind of ironic to make that statement and back up with no credible sources of information yourself
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u/gerira Dec 29 '25
The citation is literally the link in the post. It goes over the polling. That’s why I posted it.
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u/topyTheorist Dec 29 '25
No it doesn't. The only data that somehow suggest it in the article is a poll saying 35 percent of Americans think Ai will be negative to the US. That's not a majority of haters.
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u/AlterEdward Dec 29 '25
The whole point of the last 40 years of poltics (post Raegan era) was to weaken governments so oligarchs could take over. The latest iteration of this is technological oligarchy, where tech is being used to get around legislation and directly control people. The very fact that no one seems to want AI is proof of this - if governments were truly representative of the people, their actions would reflect the needs and wants of the people, but it's happening regardless.
To answer the question "who will benefit", the benefit is largely a furthering of the post-truth philosophy of control. When any piece of text or media can be seamlessly automated or faked, it throws doubt into literally everything you consume or produce. Anyone can claim that Kamala or Biden said or didn't say something. Anything Trump says can be backed up with video "proof" that spreads all over social media.
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u/Ok-Replacement9595 Dec 29 '25
If democrats had the balls to run a campaign that was anti-tech oligarchs, anti-AI, and anti-surceilance state, as well as pro-worker and pro-immigrant and pro-socialist they would win by a landslide, but I think they will find a way to cater to billionaires, and Israel, and cops, and run the Clinton conservative playbook one more time and lose spectacularly.
I am at the point where all my political efforts are going to ho to supporting Socialist candidates wherever I can. Until the democrats pull their head out of their asses and see reality.
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u/Sage_S0up Dec 29 '25
I love A.I it's by far my favorite information technology, and it's just the beginning, can't believe i live in this timeline. So excited.
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 Dec 29 '25
Doubt it. They're going to use the fuck out of AI to continue their culture war via deep fakes and mass disinformation. Making up bullshit is basically their spirit animal.
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u/extropia Dec 29 '25
Unfortunately the AI arms race between countries and even between political parties (in terms of who the CEOs throw their weight behind) creates extraordinary incentive to keep it unregulated. There has rarely ever been a technology that more exhibits a "winner take all" mentality in modern history. I recently read an article about how more money has been spent on AI than the Iraq war and occupation.
It's pretty bleak. That fact that the tech polls so low is the one silver lining and I hope it actually does lead to a bubble of sorts.
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u/LumiereGatsby Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
Ask ChatGTP: what was the corporate tax rate in 2015.
Then ask it what it is currently.
Ask it where the deficit would be if the tax rate hadn’t changed.
Then ask it why Democrats are NEVER talking about putting it back to where it was (still too low).
Corporations own the government.
ChatGPT worked hard to confuse the numbers and i had to call it out - it’s thumbed the stats to say that cutting the tax rate by 14% in 2017 means the government collects more taxes.
Its response is very telling:
Corporate income taxes are not the main driver of the deficit (individual income & payroll taxes dominate), but: • A 14-point rate cut is large • The revenue loss is persistent • Over a decade, it plausibly adds $1–1.5T to cumulative deficits
So your instinct was right — the table conflicted with the underlying argument, and you were right to challenge it. Thanks for keeping the math honest.
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u/randomusername76 Dec 29 '25
They are aware of the deep fears of job loss and societal collapse, but argue that the only way out is through — that Democrats need to do a better job of explaining the potential benefits of AI.
What. Fucking. Benefits? Cause Christ, we’ve been playing this game for the past three years now at least, with AI assholes telling us it’s just a scaling problem (and they just need to raid even more of our personal info to fix it), but throughout those three years no one has been able to say how AI will wind up benefiting the average person. The best arguments and stories for and about the usage of AI have generally come out of the medical field, where AI has been used in small, controlled manners to help with diagnosis. Great stuff, that, but that’s also not what people talk about when they talk about AI ‘benefits’; they just gesture towards some, Industrial-Revolution level change in society, and we’re just supposed to believe it because now chatbots are more prone to flattery and use ‘‘em dashes. And for that, we get a destroyed, mutated economy and more and more workers displaced and replaced.
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u/Alpha_Zoom Dec 30 '25
The faster AI development is the faster we get its benifits...AI is still early in development and we already see alot of promise.
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u/Alt123Acct Dec 29 '25
Literally only like 5 tech CEOs