A political fight is brewing over who’ll benefit most from the AI revolution — and what if anything Washington should do to shape the outcome.
A fight is brewing over power and AI between the worlds of tech and politics. | Pau Barrena/AFP via Getty ImagesMatthew Kaminski is editor-at-large, writing regularly for POLITICO Magazine on American and global affairs. He’s the founding editor of POLITICO Europe, which launched in 2015, and former editor-in-chief of POLITICO from 2019 t0 2023. He previously worked for the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, based in Kyiv, Brussels, Paris and New York.
Come on, this is an entirely new kind of technology … a computer that thinks! You have to think about it differently. As recently as last fall, Sam Altman and other AI princes were toasted in Washington. | Patrick Semansky/AP Want to read more stories like this? POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun every Friday.Lina Khan, the FTC’s head who has used the antitrust cudgel against big tech liberally, has sounded the warnings. “There is no AI exemption to the laws on the books,” shequietly fume about having to grapple with Washington. The tech crowd says the only fight that matters is the AI race against China and each other.
“I firmly believe that what this looks like is some parts of the U.S. government developing some testing and measurement standards for the AI systems that are frontier, which are all American, to be clear, and will be so for years until the effect of export controls on China lessens,” Clark says. “And then you can export a testing and standards regime around the world. America can do this.”
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