OF COURSE: Obama involved in ‘AI Apocalypse’ scare campaign

Miranda DeVine has a great story in the New York Post about how Barack Obama and Democrats are behind the latest ‘AI apocolypse’ hoax, just in time for the midterms.

She explains below:

The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax. How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week.

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“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade . . . They are gambling with our lives,” he claimed.

His boss, the Democrat-aligned Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei, amplified Coxon’s apocalyptic message with a 3,800-word essay on Saturday, followed by a giddy interview CBS aired Sunday in which he essentially called for a one-world government to regulate AI.

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Bernie Sanders, who announced the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act” this month with dark warnings about the existential threat, joined him on the airwaves Sunday: “We don’t have months. We don’t have years. We got to move now.”

Anthropic’s intervention caps a summer in which a top Democrat talking point, parroted by candidates across the country, has been the perils of AI data centers. It’s a topic that, seemingly out of nowhere, now polls as a significant issue for voters, probably helped by a Chinese social media influence campaign discovered by X to stir up hostility against data centers.

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Of course Barack Obama is involved. The former president and back-room Machiavelli “has taken a special interest in AI in recent years, and has offered himself as a sounding board to industry leaders, including [Open AI’s Sam] Altman and Mr. Amodei,” says The New York Times.

During a closed-door midterm fundraiser in Manhattan on Thursday with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Obama urged party donors and Democrat House members to make AI regulation the center of their agenda. He told them AI was even more “dangerous,” than nukes.

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The uncanny coordination of messages sure smells like an “election season psyop” designed to scare the electorate into voting Democrat. All that’s needed is an anti-AI Greta Thunberg.

The top four stories on the Times homepage over the weekend were Anthropic’s AI alarmism, plus a cover story of Sunday’s print edition.

It’s the same media game we’ve seen time and again, with the same deep-state bad actors who were behind the anti-Trump dirty tricks from the Russia hoax to the Dirty 51 letter that falsely claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

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