AI barely came up in the 2024 presidential race. By 2028 AI may be one of the defining issues. Some analysts already argue it will be the most important one.
The battle lines don’t follow party lines. Young people use AI more than anyone, yet many fear it will close the door to decent full-time jobs. Better-educated workers are pulling ahead with it, while others risk falling behind. Populists on the left and the right are both sharpening their knives.
AI and Politics: A Monthly Signal is built on a model. Each month it scores a fixed set of players, issues and population groups on a heat scale from 1 to 5, with arrows showing which way each one is moving, in a way similar to the other Signal newsletters. The players run from both parties and the democratic socialist movement to labour unions, parent groups and the AI industry’s own political money. The issues include jobs, children and chatbots, electricity bills, copyright, and national security. Because the rows stay the same every month, readers can watch the shifts build over time.
Around the heat map, each edition offers three narrative deep dives, a “move of the month” tracing one chain of cause and effect, the people and groups who shifted, and what to watch next.
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