Abdul El-Sayed
Role at the time: Michigan U.S. Senate candidate and former Detroit health director, posting on his campaign account
Condemned
Statement summary
El-Sayed accused Trump of trying to prevent meaningful limits on AI development for short-term electoral and economic reasons, said that choice put political interests ahead of AI risk, and argued that Mike Rogers would follow the same approach.
“We need to be absolutely clear. Donald Trump is trying to forestall any meaningful limit on AI development, which even the people developing it say has a serious chance of dooming humanity, for one reason. The midterms. AI and its chips and data centers are the only thing keeping the stock market in the black right now. He doesn't want his 20-car pileup to get even worse as gas and grocery prices soar. He’s putting his short term political interests over the huge risk AI poses. And that’s what you’ll get if his stooges like Mike Rogers wins. Short-term, self-dealing liars.”