‘AI for America’ wants to be a New Deal for workers and communities. But it needs teeth

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s plan to protect workers amid the AI revolution starts the conversation, but here’s how it could take the fight to the companies building the future at a breakneck pace.

Curing cancer. Reducing carbon emissions. Maximizing business efficiency. To achieve all this and develop untold social goods, artificial intelligence “accelerationsts” at companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI believe their industry has a duty to speed ahead toward superintelligence, or AI that’s far superior to humans at most tasks. Key to that revolution will be the build-out of data centers.