Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs

Summary

Guardian columnist Rebecca Solnit argues in an opinion piece for the How We Win series that the midterm elections will act as a referendum on the GOP's alignment with tech leaders. She cites OpenAI head Sam Altman's remark that the world should accept some bad things for the benefits of the technology. The piece notes that surveys show most Americans would like to pause AI, and that opposition to AI datacenters is a factor in many midterm races.

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