Artificial Intelligence is becoming a 2028 campaign issue

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The AI boom is scrambling the American political landscape. Potential Democratic and Republican candidates for the 2028 election are starting to stake their territory on a rapidly evolving technology.

Companies are pouring record sums of money into developing AI, as Americans grow wary that the technology will drive widespread job losses and reshape privacy rights and national security. It’s setting the stage for AI to become a major theme in the next presidential election.

“AI will force itself onto the political agenda in 2028,” Chris McGuire, an AI policy expert at the Council of Foreign Relations, said in a blog post. “When it does, the American people will expect policymakers to have serious answers ready.”