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Ellen Thomas's avatar

The problem here in the US is the chaos Trump creates. Every time we turn around something else horrible is happening and people make calls to reps, go online, talk and do petitions, and read news for updates. To get Congress to pay attention to this threat would require Trump to care. And since he is in bed with AI owners, creators, producers the odds of getting anyone to pay attention is close to nil. We're already fighting so many battles he has created - weapons to Israel, which was on a genocidal path, providing weapons that are enabling the Sudan genocide, alienating our allies, creating global economic strain with his tariffs war which jacks up the cost of living, killing our climate change programs, trying to eliminate our Endangered Species program, taking away food and medical care for millions of people, militarizing our cities, punishing Democratic states by cutting the funding they are entitled to, taking revenge with expensive investigations into people who piss him off, destroying a part of our most significant national building without agreement from anyone and lying throughout, and assaulting, kidnapping and imprisoning people right off the streets or breaking into buildings. I'm sure in the face of the above you can understand why this isn't going to get more attention here. We see the danger but we also see danger all around us threatening our way of life. The faster we get this corrupt, immoral government out of office, the faster we will pile into the fight to keep AI under control. I just hope it will be in time.

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Jean(Muriel)'s avatar

Ellen,

I agree totally. Thank you for your articulate comments. So true and of course we have seen before the passive response to our climate issue. The passive awareness (none) of what our Congress gets away with without transparency.

We are a “Pollyanna” party! I have her number for those who depend on her saving them from awareness: it is 222-222-too late!

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Diane J's avatar

In the US regulation will depend on the party in office and the size of the bribes.

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

More than just interesting! Thanks for this.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

Oh, so that's what it's like to live in a real country.

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Ella's avatar

There is a startup that's addressing these issues, see lisaintel.com

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