Welcome to Monday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today, we take a look at the return of Amy Kremer, longtime booster of Donald Trump, who is emerging as a player in the AI wars. Her outfit, Humans First, released a letter calling for careful regulation of the technology. But could she be the witting or unwitting conservative face of a movement launched by Effective Altruists? Plus, why you should always take photos of Pete Hegseth if you see him out and about around town!Dozens of New Yorkers gathered in a church hall in March, setting aside their political differences to unite against the way big tech and its wealthy owners were trying to foist artificial intelligence on Americans.MAGA conservatives were represented by Joe Allen, a sidekick of Steve Bannon. One of the organizers was Jeremy Ornstein, who rose to prominence with the anti-Trump Sunrise Movement.
The meeting of Humans First was meant to show that AI was too important to be left to narrow party politics.
Yet exactly a month later, the experiment was over. Humans First announced it was rebranding as an organization of “grassroots conservatives committed to fighting for an America First AI policy,” helmed by Amy Kremer, a Tea Party alumna who became notorious for her role in organizing the January 6 rally beside the White House in 2021.
