Progressives steer Democratic Party toward heavy regulation of AI
Administrative state expansion raises questions about democratic accountability and economic freedom.
artificial intelligence. That’s rich. The same people who can’t figure out how to secure the border or keep the lights on in California now want to micromanage the most promising industry of the century.
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Progressive Democrats are jockeying to shape the Democratic Party’s approach to artificial intelligence, pushing for heavy restrictions on the rapidly developing industry. The hard-left wing of the Democratic Party has been sharply critical of the AI industry’s rapid, largely unregulated growth, warning that the risks of the technology advancing faster than developers can keep pace […]
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artificial intelligence. That’s rich. The same people who can’t figure out how to secure the border or keep the lights on in California now want to micromanage the most promising industry of the century. They warn that AI is advancing faster than developers can keep pace. Maybe to them that sounds scary. To the rest of us, that sounds like a problem you solve by moving faster, not by hitting the brakes.
What we’re actually watching is a minority faction trying to strangle a vital industry in the cradle. Progressives don’t understand AI, so they fear it. And when the left fears something, their answer is always the same: form a committee, write 1,000 pages of regulations, and let unelected bureaucrats decide what counts as “safe.” Never mind that innovation doesn’t work that way. Never mind that the risks they’re worried about are mostly hypothetical, while the benefits are already real and measurable.
Heavy-handed regulation is a gift to China. Beijing isn’t asking permission to build faster, better systems. It’s pouring state money into winning the AI race. If Democrats succeed in shackling American developers with red tape, the only thing they’ll accomplish is handing global leadership to an authoritarian rival. That’s not progressive. That’s self-destructive.
Conservatives know better. We trust the people building these tools, not the people who write press releases about them. The AI industry doesn’t need a permission slip from Washington. It needs room to run. And the sooner the Democratic Party realizes that, the better for everyone. Except the regulators, who’ll have to find something else to meddle with.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.