<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Has anyone seen any evidence that the right/left or Republican/Democrat political devide tends to lean towards one way or the other as far as AI is going to kill us vs AI is going to save us? It'd be entertaining if all the Youdokowski followers went way right and all the Kurzweil followers went way left.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 7:09 PM Gregory Jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">...but it soon will be.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am out at sea with very little bandwidth, so I talk and listen to other passengers, to see what they know about AI. Some refer me to the former VPOTUS who explained that it is a fancy thing and is two letters.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It occurred to me that AI isn't really politicized, yet. But we can see how quickly things are moving. We in this forum recognize that AI might solve all our problems or kill us. As that realization overtakes the general population, they will look to political leaders to tell them if it is a good thing or a bad thing. Subtlety and nuance go out the window. Science out, politics in, reality pushed aside, truth unavailable. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It hasn't happened yet. But it will.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">spike</div></div>
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