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The left is missing out on AI - by Dan Kagan-Kans

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As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right Dan Kagan-Kans Feb 16, 2026 421 260 108 Share Credit: Transformer/ Rebecca Hendin Abdication “Somehow all of the interesting energy for discussions about the long-range future of humanity is concentrated on the right,” wrote Joshua Achiam, head of mission alignment at OpenAI, on X last year. “The left has completely abdicated their role in this discussion. A decade from now this will be understood on the left to have been a generational mist

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