{"id":620974,"date":"2026-04-21T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620974\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:09:08","slug":"the-world-wakes-up-to-ais-power-as-resentment-grows-among-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620974\/","title":{"rendered":"The world wakes up to AI\u2019s power as resentment grows among voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should a handful of men be entrusted with the world\u2019s most potent new technology? Five geeks so famous that they can be identified by their first names \u2013 Dario, Demis, Elon, Mark and Sam \u2013 exercise almost godlike command over the artificial-intelligence models that will shape the future. The Trump administration has stood aside even as those models have gained jaw-dropping capabilities, convinced that unfettered competition between private firms is the best way to ensure America wins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/asia\/smash-and-grab-are-china-s-ai-distillers-a-security-risk-20260331-p5zka0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the AI race against China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until now. Suddenly, America\u2019s freewheeling treatment of AI looks as if it is coming to an end. The reason is that the models\u2019 dizzying progress also poses a threat to America\u2019s own national security, unnerving members of the Trump administration previously more inclined to worry about overregulation. At the same time, growing resentment among American voters is turning AI into a political lightning rod. A laissez-faire approach is no longer politically tenable or strategically wise.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">The Economist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should a handful of men be entrusted with the world\u2019s most potent new technology? Five geeks so famous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-620974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}