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Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?

2 points by talmr ↗ HN
First off, apologies for brining up politics. Unfortunately, it is relevant to the conversation.

The US midterm elections just concluded, and with the “blue tsunami” I would like to know opinions of people in AI.

What will the impact be? I’m not politically active, so I’m curious to know what folks think the future looks like.

Open source? Data centers? Space based compute?

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Terr_
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giantg2
The link provided is talking about government services, not really open source, or is there something I'm missing?
everylostbit
In my mind, it just adds one more factor to the overall "risks" side of the scale for the commercial market side of Ai as a whole. A lot of people think a significant correction is inevitable, and such a significant change in the political landscape probably is going to have an effect in the medium and long term. For the short term, I personally don't think it will make much of a difference.
dachworker
The issue with data centers is mostly because they want to build fast. There is enough space for data centers otherwise.
Tryvrsakjo10
Not much will change with the advent of the blue wave, in the big, beautiful bill there is a section written which allows for deregulation of AI for 10 years, so the datacentres are still going to be built there's too much money at stake to inhibit or halt AI now.
giantg2
Very little changes with most elections. I don't see any reason this one will be different. The data center issues will mostly be handled at the state and local level, and so will vary accross the country. I haven't really heard federal level candidates campaigning on the topics you asked about, or anything technology related in general.
yulaow
The only risk I see is that, when/if the bubble will pop, there will be far less will to save companies from bankruptcy with government money, even if deemed too big to fail