1 hour ago Cruz says winning the AI race against China is “the most important economic issue” for the United States. The United States’ AI race against China, which has become a major point of debate as the midterm elections approach, is a race filled with “coordinated” propaganda, warned Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. In recent months, data centers and AI policy have been debated in Congress and at the kitchen tables of American families. But Cruz, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, told Fox News Digital that much of the new opposition to data centers is being manipulated by a coordinated and well-funded campaign. “It’s the same reason we saw Middle Eastern countries paying for anti-fracking movements,” Cruz said. “Because if they can convince the United States to ‘don’t develop their oil and gas, just buy it from us,’ well, that would be great for them and terrible for us.” “The same goes for data centers. If they can convince the Americans, ‘You don’t want data centers here, you just want to trust the Chinese for AI,’ that’s great for China, and it’s terrible for the United States.” closed “two groups of ChatGPT accounts probably originating in China that [OpenAI] banned after they used our models in support of apparent covert influence operations that promoted narratives in an attempt to manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and broader technology policies. “Cruz called the effort to craft policies to ensure the U.S. wins the AI race “the most important economic issue facing the United States today.” “If China wins, AI will focus on espionage, propaganda, control and surveillance because that is the Chinese Communist Party,” Cruz said. “That will be its values. They will use AI to try to control you. If America wins, I want American values to be reflected in AI. I want free speech, individualism, free enterprise and privacy to be reflected in AI, not control and power.” This is an excerpt from an article by Preston Mizell of Fox News.
