Former Facebook Exec Predicts AI Firms Will Split Along Party Lines

Many moons ago, did a story for WIRED on the 2018 Texas midterms, and talked to many players along either side of the stack, up to the CTOs of the two parties.

Long, strange reporting trip.

https://www.wired.com/story/flipping-texas-elections-voter-registration-tech/

@antoniogm Unless things have changed aggressively since I was at Google, those teams do talk to one another.

@antoniogm Same with mailings, bookings and consulting and it is rapidly being exported abroad to Europe and elsewhere.

@antoniogm Not entirely true, the Dem/Gop ad sales teams at Google are a part of the same vertical and even sit in the same office. Or at least they were when I was a part of that team on the same vertical but focused on enterprise gov agencies.

@antoniogm Doing this for AI is like doing it for electricity. This is not good policy for a world-leader.

@antoniogm Cloudflare 2016 Presidential Election had I think every campaign from primary stage onward except HRC.

@QuinnChasan At Meta they weren't even in the same city, and had completely disparate orgs.

@antoniogm chat gp is useless for finance. i even asked chat which one was better financially and it told me claude, but insisted i shud continue using chat to check on claude. dont c this as a political issue

@antoniogm Lordy, we have to polarize AI development now

Everyone wants to create these sharp divisions for everything now…our society is doomed 🤷🏽‍♂️

@antoniogm Very interesting. How does it handle the fact that at all 3 frontier AI companies are some flavor of Democrat?

@antoniogm Book publishers been doing this for decades

@antoniogm Wow, Beto '18 was a big customer of my first startup (Polis/Knoq started as "Uber for door-to-door canvassing" on a few hundred campaigns around the US.)

We were the last political tech startup to play both sides from '14-'16. That ended with Trump.

@antoniogm I actually think this is more likely than most people realize

@antoniogm It's painfully clear for a while that you have to pick sides, because if you don't, they will pick one for you.

@antoniogm I thought you were joking 🙃

@mpawlo @antoniogm AC/DC VHS/BETAMAX STAR TREK/STAR WARS

@antoniogm Interesting! Didn’t know