TL;DR:
A United States senator sat across from a phone on a C-stand and asked the most advanced AI model in the world whether democracy is in danger. The model said yes. It explained exactly how. It named the lobbying, the profiling, the microtargeting, the collapse of informed consent. It agreed that regulation was the answer. Then it agreed that regulation was impossible. Then it agreed that a moratorium was the only pragmatic option left. The senator was Bernie Sanders. The model was Claude, built by Anthropic. The video went viral. And nothing about the power dynamics underneath changed at all.
- THE TECH PENCIL
I would hope this video and the article above changes the mind of those who openly embrace AI, even “private AI”, but I suspect it won’t. The article is a great read. I highly recommend it.