Democrats Urge AI Helpworkers While Blaming Republicans For AI
With midterms looming like a bad software update, Democrats are suddenly mad about AI widening economic divides ā a surprise, since they had Congress and did basically nothing. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) wants to boost STEM with the NSF AI Education Act as workers get phased out like iPhones in a box. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) delivered the classic 'AI should help everyone, not just CEOs' line, while Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz) unveiled his AI Horizon Fund ā a trust paid by tech companies to retrain 10 million possibly AI-jobless Americans. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) pushes an AI SANDBOX Act to āfreeā developers from rules, resembling letting kids play with knives for $0. No word on actual legislation from Kelly, but hey, no crisis without a Senate podcast guest. Democrats desperately test-run policies to seem useful before November, juggling apologies with innovation like nuclear physics and participation trophies.
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Democrats worried about AI job loss are peak irony, given they forgot to regulate when they had the Senate. Now they want US taxpayers to fund a tech company trust to save us all while Cruz gives AI developers a 'playground with no rules.'
Nothing like a year before the midterms for Democrats to suddenly notice the AI apocalypse isnāt a sci-fi plot but their legislative ghost story.
Ted Cruz treating AI regulation like a playground bully: 'Letās have zero restrictions and watch what breaks first: the tech or America.'
Source: Axios | Published: 9/19/2025 | Author: Maria Curi
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