Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Politico that “we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology,” referring to ChatGPT users dying, people losing their jobs to AI, and the other negative externalities we have seen from AI.
Altman wasn’t running for office Tuesday. But this worldview—that the masses must shut up and suffer while oligarchs centralize power, self-deal, spend wildly to capture the political process, and automate away human endeavors so they can amass yet more wealth—was wholly repudiated in Tuesday’s election as people in Red States, Blue States, and Purple States rejected the cruelty, corruption, and depravity economy we’ve seen over the last few years. They are tired of kleptocracy.
