[The full version of this article appears at Reason Magazine]
With a contentious midterm election less than a week away, one cause has unified voters and candidates across the political spectrum: slowing down AI.
Public sentiment has since soured even more. An October ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that 57 percent of Americans think AI is bad for society, while a staggering 66 percent said they opposed new data center construction in the United States.
In August, Arvind Narayanan, director of the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy and co-author of AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, claimed that a data center moratorium would basically not slow AI development at all.
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