Why 🦀 TechPublicPolicy picked: In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Potholes have opened up on the road to A.I. utopia,” Tanner Greer writes in a guest essay. The industry must navigate between the A.I. safety movement and the nationwide backlash against data centers, two new political forces that could each derail its progress.

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