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Libertarian: Don’t Let Big Brother Control AI
Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown contrasts the White House’s “restrained” AI imaginative and prescient with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “frighteningly authoritarian vision in which the federal government gains significant control over private AI companies and the future of output.” “Fusing government priorities with private sector priorities is the whole point of Sanders’ new proposal” giving “the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.” He claims “the collective is owed a cut of AI company stock,” however below his American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, notes Nolan, extraordinary Americans “would not have a direct role in determining the future of this technology; bureaucrats and politicians would.”
Media watch: Times’ Delaney Hall Delusions
As it coated Gov. Mikie Sherrill troubles touring the Delaney Hall ICE facility, The New York Times by chance uncovered the lies of “the governor’s fellow Democrats, who also insist that they have been denied access to the facility,” notes National Review’s Noah Rothman. Except the identical story notes members of Congress do have rights to examine, however fails to notice Homeland Security can limit entry for security causes, as “during periods in which the band of agitators encamped outside the facility engages in violence.” Of course the paper additionally downplayed that violence, emphasizing “a ‘festive’ atmosphere. ‘Some demonstrators bopped their heads to dance music, salsa, punk rock, rap and reggae,’ the report read. When they weren’t assaulting cops, at least.”
Conservative: Welfare State Kills Work Ethic
Federal information show that “1 in 3 men were neither working nor looking for a job in April,” laments the Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley. This rise in “male joblessness doesn’t stem from an inability to find employment” however quite “from an unwillingness to search for work.” “Technological advancements and deindustrialization” are to not blame “for the increase in male idleness.” Democrats cite Europe as a “social-welfare model for the US” but “nearly a million Brits under 25 aren’t employed, in school or in job training,” as almost half declare some incapacity, with “seven in 10” of them “are still on it a decade later.” Beware: “Europe’s large safety net isn’t a model for America. It’s a cautionary tale.”
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Liberal: Dems Seek Authenticity, Deliver Fakes
Seeking the “Holy Grail” of “authenticity,” Democrats have nominated candidates who’re “defective and downright weird,” moans Joe Klein at Sanity Clause. In Maine, Graham Platner, “the boy with the Nazi tattoo,” a “fake oysterman,” has adopted a “series of silly positions.” In Texas, Dems suppose that being a divinity pupil renders James Talarico “exotic to the point of being . . . authentic,” regardless of hos progressive-line views on race and gender. “Authenticity has slipped into affect” for Democrats, “who have been hemmed in rhetorically since political correctness overwhelmed the party”; they think about it’s “a matter of style, not content.” In actuality, an “authentic politician tells us something true that we don’t want to hear”; Platner and Talerico are merely “carnival acts.”
Politics beat: American Democracy’s Challenge
Primary elections “seem to be providing little in the way of good news for both parties’ futures,” muses the Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone, as each Democratic and Republican “primary electorates seem focused on fighting the same old battles they have been fighting” since Donald Trump joined the scrum in 2016. Seemingly “hopelessly addled by loyalty to, or hatred of, Trump,” each events “seem engaged in self-harm”: Which one will “hurt itself more by poor candidate choices and tactical blunders”? Yet “worse things can happen in electoral democracies”: Last century “an antidemocratic upheaval” after the horrors of the primary World War ended freedom first in Russia, then Italy and Germany, whereas “America’s political parties, old even then, did better.” Take hope now: “The enduring character of America’s historical parties has provided and can provide again an alternative to antidemocratic or anti-republican views.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
