UNDERNEWS: The anti-AI movement

New
Yorker – In the past year, data centers have emerged as a central issue
in both American politics and the gyre of discourse swirling around American
politics. On blogs and podcasts, the commentariat has marvelled at the
emergence of an elusive bipartisan consensus. And well they should: the most
recent polling shows that an astounding seventy-one per cent of the population
opposes data-center construction in their areas.

Equally astonishing, if not yet equally remarked upon, is
the consensus about A.I. itself. Sixty-nine per cent of Americans are
“concerned” about the technology’s role in society, according to a study that
used data from norc at the University of Chicago. A poll conducted by NBC last
spring found that A.I. is less popular than such societal darlings as ice,
Donald Trump, and J. D. Vance. More