{"id":646727,"date":"2026-10-15T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646727\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:26:07","slug":"opinion-abdul-el-sayeds-plan-to-control-ai-relies-on-heavy-handed-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/646727\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Abdul El-Sayed&#8217;s plan to control AI relies on heavy-handed government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VMD3T4UYUBGR7FLX6AVBNEQBDE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Luddites had a straightforward solution to the challenges posed by the Industrial Revolution: smash the machines. Two centuries later, Democratic Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed <a href=\"https:\/\/abdulforsenate.com\/2026\/10\/ai-under-control\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/abdulforsenate.com\/2026\/10\/ai-under-control\/\">has proposed<\/a> an analogous response to artificial intelligence: shut down the machines before they get too smart. \u201cPermanently prohibit any AI that outthinks humans across most tasks,\u201d he said in a plan released Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Luddites had a straightforward solution to the challenges posed by the Industrial Revolution: smash the machines. Two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-646727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}