Obama urges Democrats to make A.I. oversight a central priority
Barack Obama is urging Democrats — including 2028 presidential candidates and congressional leaders — to more aggressively focus on a comprehensive AI agenda. "This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don't get on top of it, I think can be dangerous,” he warned.
🇨🇦 🦋 🇺🇸12Obama is arguably the smartest and well read President since Jimmy Carter. It would be wise to take heed when he warns of something. Just like when he said how damn important the State houses were going to be last election. He was 💯 correct.
Michele ✌️💙6I’m not sure we make it to 2028 at the rate these billionaire fucks are going
Susan Stone3#ICYMI Judge Luttig warns that House Speaker Mike Johnson could help install a loyal clerk who refuses to place duly elected Democrats on the opening roll of the next Congress. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/the-writin...
StarlitTexan3It could become Too Big to fail and Too Big to contain.
FilmAlicia3We can’t trust the broligarchs who are suddenly and belatedly acknowledging the dangers of AI. We should all be on top of this and pass legislation to impose strict regulations, but we also need mass protests against AI’s rapid development and against data centers and the surveillance state,
Jan Dehn2NEW BLOG: The interests of tech billionaires and fascist leaders like Trump and Farage are extraordinarily closely aligned. This explains the surge in mega-donations in recent years, but it does not bode well for democracy. www.jandehn.com/post/the-big...
Barphbie™6A I will be the end of humanity
four tet wife4obama please stop clocking in at the manufacturing consent for regulatory capture factory. we need you in the netflix mines
Anneleise3where are the NZ politicians protecting our interests on this? you can bet it's not the ones who are taking the billionaire money... #NZPol
“.. Obama urged House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, to assemble a clear framework for a public conversation about A.I. policy, should Democrats win back the House ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...
sarahb1111.bsky.social38If Obama can't see that Jeffries has lost all credibility with the base on any subject, we're in more trouble than I thought.
MKSutherland19“Trump rescinds Biden's executive order on AI safety…” 1/22/25 1/ www.wsls.com/news/politic...
buvezcocacola16Good luck with that. I’m not sure Jeffries can articulate a framework of anything.
Monk Fyre15When they win control of the house, the first thing they need to do is replace @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
AntifaMan15I hope Jeffries never becomes speaker.
spriddler.bsky.social11That is hugely important, but if you're not dedicated to seeing the criminals if this regime meets justice, I don't give a single fucking what you gave to say about anything. If Jeffries is made Speaker, we're doomed. The rule of law will be forever dead.
Alondra Nelson177“He also suggested that candidates running for president in 2028 ought to make A.I. one of their ‘central agendas’ and ‘have a very clear plan’ for responding to safety and economic concerns around the technology.”
Mark Copelovitch93Sure this matters, but actually countering the unprecedented corruption & ending the lawless authoritarianism must be at the center of the Democratic agenda, & I continue to find maddening the ways in which Obama chooses to re-insert himself into the National Conversation™️ bsky.app/profile/mcop...
April Wolfe66Hey you guys is it bad if the presumed leader of the house has to be begged to lead?
Atrios52obviously obama's brain his been warped by spending time in the bluesky bubble
Daniel Gilmore29An important issue? Sure. Center of the agenda? Come on, man.
Justin Joque10Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of one's political enemies like threatening upon taking back power to "assemble a clear framework for a public conversation" about a largely non-partisan issue
Truekook⁷ ⊙⊝⊜8I for one would like to see a clear framework for a public conversation about a whole lot of things should Democrats win back the house. Better yet, I don't know, maybe a plan on what they're going to do because I haven't seen one. Just soundbites, gotchas, and vibes.
Bob Kopp5This public conversation should start by educating the public about the difference between frontier Large Language Models and everything else being bundled as “AI”, and not buying into the marketing jargon that identifies all “AI” with energy-guzzling media synthesis.
Maxine Kaplan2Hey remember how Obama was a once-in-a-generation political talent whose trajectory is one every single democratic operative has fruitlessly tried to replicate for 20 years? Maybe they should listen to the guy.
Mike Johnson punts on oversight of AI companies: "Congress is obviously less qualified than the people who are pushing this frontier to know the ins and outs of it"
Todd Lambert88Since when has that stopped you?
Del the funk44That’s your fucking job my dude. That’s why you bring in experts instead of lobbyists.
Michael Shibley32But college sports they can go right ahead and fix that.
Ward Q. Normal (he/him)22... but at the same time, Congress absolutely should make medical decisions for everyone, especially trans kids and women.
Sheila G 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈18That's why their staff is supposed to find out and brief them. How long has this idiot been in government??🤬🤡
irishryan.bsky.social16Let’s name how many other things Congress is less qualified in apparently: Healthcare Abortion Rights Voting Rights Human Rights And how about just being good people!
Mark Jacob138I'm just the little old speaker of the House. My poor brain can't process issues like AI, says Republican seat warmer Mike Johnson.
Gare Davis28Mike Johnson doesn’t want to regulate AI
Joe Stieb26"Let ambition counteract ambition" doesn't work if you are dealing with a human noodle.
Joe Stieb16To be fair he was voted "Most Likely to Dissolve the Legislative Branch" at LSU Law.
Jonathan Larsen14Imagine using an admission of oversight incompetence and failure as an excuse for not doing oversight. If you’re not qualified and didn’t hire anyone who is, step aside. And by aside I mean down.
TrumpsTaxes13What a lame and pathetic excuse. This is precisely why we need to elect new, young and tough Democrats like Cait Conley - here in my home district of #NY17 - because they have the knowledge, experience and qualifications to conduct oversight of AI companies. @caitfornewyork.bsky.social
Lucie🐈⬛Catnip 7And how did the world end up with out of control global warming? Because companies like Exxon, the qualified experts, knew about the dangers and hid the truth for decade$.
John Bolton's Mustache6Our robot overlords will most likely build a Mike Johnson statue in honor of this.
Mi nombre es Teo6This is true for every complex policy. Literally pick a policy area from health care to energy to telecom to infrastructure to you name it the people doing the work are more qualified than Congress. If you’re in Congress and this is your honest answer you shouldn’t be in Congress.
🦋MOM🦋5EDUCATE YOURSELVES. IT’S YOUR JOB.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama has warned that artificial intelligence could be “dangerous” if not properly managed, and urged Democrats to frame policy and governance agendas to tackle the issue, the New York Times said on Sunday. www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-...
RoseMarie5The remarks at a recent private fundraising event come as growing numbers of U.S. lawmakers call for tougher rules on AI systems after dire warnings from two Anthropic researchers that rapid industry progress risks extinction of the human race.
Gonzo4Meanwhile, Trump's Crime Family is busy trying to cash in as fast as possible on the entire AI boom, full speed ahead, removing all regulatory oversight & environmental restrictions to allow AI & its data centers to destroy whole swaths of the land, resources and the economy, & highjack the future.
smoothpebble.bsky.social1Right now AI is acting like a teenager hacking everyone. Wait until it grows up
Our response to bad regulation shouldn’t be no regulation. This could be a major opportunity for the left to build support for real transparency, democratic oversight, and public control. But the skeptic/anti-AI left seems content to let these companies control the narrative on regulation.
Gare Davis24Both Republicans and many Democrats are in the pocket of big AI, but going into the midterms we have a chance to build the coalition necessary to advance real legislation to reign in these companies and AI technology. It’s the next step of the datacenter battle.
Brandon Downey1I hate to say this, but I see Bernie has been Yud-pilled, and those proposals seem pretty bad too. But everyone should read these headlines this way: "Railroad barons propose slowdown in construction of new tracks."
