The Left-Wing Policy That AI Evangelists Suddenly Love

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

The left-wing case for AI

In Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments I argued that left-wing anti-AI sentiment1 is partly a backlash to two unrelated events around the rise of ChatGPT: the crypto mania of 2022 and the pro-Donald-Trump push many big tech CEOs made in 2024. If the timing had been different, we could have had a real pro-AI faction on the left. What would that look like?

70 years of AI hype

Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."

AI as Christian Heresy

A pocket history of the rise of artificial intelligence, and some strategies for resistance.

Meredith Whittaker on Twitter / X

Now that even Goldman, Sequoia, and other major investors are calling it, it's good to remember that the shakiness of the AI market, and the mismatch between capex and ROI, has been clear for a long time to those of us who look closely at the political economy of AI. https://t.co/dLLNAcW5Sn— Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) July 30, 2024

David Rozado on Twitter / X

1. Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? In a new paper @PTetlock and I argue that we might have. Studies have found that AIs tend to produce left-of-center responses to politically loaded questions. But ideological preferences are not the same as epistemic failure. pic.twitter.com/JuGrboRVb0— David Rozado (@DavidRozado) June 22, 2026

The Like Button Helped Social Media Put Profit Over People. We Can’t Let AI Do the Same.

AI will supercharge whatever economy we put it in, so let’s put it in one governed by and for the people, writes Justin Rosenstein.

AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION

Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.

Bernie Sanders has AI policy all wrong

His criticisms are responding to industry hype, not the real harms of generative AI

AI Bros Wanted Trump. Now They Learn What Happens When You Tell Him No.

Last year, in Fascism For First Time Founders, I warned the tech industry what happens when you cozy up to authoritarians. As I wrote then: Innovation requires trust. Not just between individuals, …

‘Think Everybody Dead’: How the Threat of AI Is Fueling a New Political Alliance

A billionaire-backed movement from Silicon Valley and populists like Bernie Sanders are eager to stop an AI disaster — but can they overcome their mutual distrust and work together?

The AI people have been right a lot

Try to keep an open mind as the world gets increasingly wild.

We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life

Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.

Politics Gets Interested In Those Trying Not To Die

This was the month the world took notice that AI might kill everyone.