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Tech News
Political resistance to data center construction is uniting figures across the ideological spectrum, with polling showing a shrinking partisan divide on the issue. Both democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders and right-wing strategist Steve Bannon have voiced opposition, according to reporting on the trend.
Steve Bannon, the former Trump strategist, and Senator Bernie Sanders have publicly aligned on an unlikely issue: both warn that unchecked artificial intelligence development could pose catastrophic dangers to society. Despite their sharply opposing politics, the two are calling on Washington to move quickly to impose regulatory limits on AI systems.
Commentators aligned with Steve Bannon's political circle, including Joe Allen, have started describing artificial intelligence systems built in data centers as 'algorithmic immigrants,' framing AI development as akin to immigration that threatens American workers and culture. The phrase is being used to fold anti-AI sentiment into existing far-right anti-immigration narratives.