As Trump cheerleads for AI, some in MAGA world fret |
President Donald Trump is an enthusiastic advocate for swift AI development in America, dismissing regulation as a curb on competing with China.
But some of Trump's supporters in the MAGA world are skeptical of the new technology threatening to upend society with the possibility of machines replacing humans in many walks of life.
Amy Kremer, president of a group named Humans First, says U.S. conservatives need to wake up to what she called the danger posed by artificial intelligence.
She also argues that many lawmakers who sit back and do nothing to regulate the exploding AI sector are actually being paid off by its monied tech executives.
"There are more regulations on a ham sandwich that I can buy at a street corner in New York City or Washington, DC, than there is on AI," said Kremer, a long-standing supporter of Trump and his Make America Great Again movement.
Dozens of activists, most of them conservatives, reached out recently to Trump in a letter initiated by Humans First and published by the news outlet Axios.
"America did not become the greatest nation in the world by allowing unelected elites to experiment on........