Only one candidate is prepared to address the issues we face in the Age of AI

[redqueen]

In the Age of AI

From fears about work and privacy to a rivalry between the U.S. and China, FRONTLINE explores the promise and perils of AI. The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.

https://www.pbs.org/video/in-the-age-of-ai-zwfwzb/

[Control-Z]

1. Who is the one candidate? eom

[elleng]

2. Doesn't really answer, imo; maybe oneself.

Watched some of it last night.

'The documentary traces a new industrial revolution that will reshape and disrupt our lives, our jobs and our world, and allow the emergence of the surveillance society.'

[redqueen]

3. Andrew Yang of course!

In addition to his having an actual plan to try to cushion the blow headed towards American workers from automation and AI, he also has forward-thinking policies like treating data as personal property.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/data-property-right/

He's not a tech-bro (he started a test prep company and a nonprofit that helped connect entrepreneurs with mentees), but he does understand technology much more than most politicians.

[Sherman A1]

4. +!

He is about 3 steps ahead of everyone else on this issue which will turn the world in which we live completely upside down.

[Sherman A1]

5. K&R

[Hortensis]

6. That's why presidents have cabinets, assistants, advisors.

Job's far too big for one person, although it's all his or hers. A president assigns vast parts of it to selected highly skilled people to do for him, who also select skilled people to help them by managing giant departments, etc. .

Yang's intelligent, no doubt, but he knows nothing about the many, many top-drawer people available across the nation, their strengths and characters, or the complexities and interactions of the many industries and power centers of the nation. That matters when he has to hit the ground with dozens of major positions already filled with VERY GOOD people and immediately make decisions on highly complex issues, all of which will send waves affecting other things, and typically generate backlash and new issues to be dealt with, with more waves and more issues.

And of course he knows effectively nothing about the incredible complexities of the many state and large-city/county governments, and always their people and politics, good, bad, ugly. The legalities and other realities, including funding issues, of who has what power and responsibility and who doesn't. How much does a road tend to cost in ND v FL? How's the labor supply?

And no one should fool themselves that anyone can knows how incredibly complex, giant governments work by reading about them. Or even that all our candidates have done that. Sanders had spent over 25 years in congress when the two traditional editorial board interviews of him and Hillary in 2016, including WaPo, revealed he was shockingly ignorant of much he was expected to know, unable to satisfactorily answer basic questions even about how the various departments of government he'd be heading could be used to execute ideas he'd championed for a half century. Yang hasn't had a professional senate staff of literally dozens who could have been providing him with well researched answers to all his questions for decades, so how would he do?

So, to put it mildly, Yang MIGHT be ready for an appointment. If he's one of many Biden and Warren, as top contenders, would already be spending spare moments considering adding to the lists they've long had in mind. There are a lot of serious top-drawer AI experts out there.