Americans are souring on AI. Peter Thiel said the US mostly has itself to blame, not China.
A growing cohort of tech executives blame China, America’s AI adversary, for people turning on the tech. Executives from Garry Tan to Kevin O’Leary have accused data center discourse of being a psyop.
In a conversation on Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner’s “MD Meets” podcast, Thiel said that while he was “inclined to believe” China could be fueling anti-AI content in the US — it wasn’t the driving force of the change in sentiment.
“This is mainly what we’re doing to ourselves,” said Thiel. “It’s often somewhat too easy to simply blame it on China.”
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