{"id":4123,"date":"2026-10-01T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T19:36:07","slug":"the-humanism-driving-the-anti-a-i-movement-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement – The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At last, an article about AI I can really get into.\u00a0 The following quote is from the article by Becca Rothfeld in the September 30, New Yorker newsletter titled: The Humanism Driving the Anti-AI Movement<\/strong>.\u00a0 You might be surprised.\u00a0 Want a copy?\u00a0 Ask me.<\/p>\n

“In the past year, data centers have emerged as a central issue in both American politics and the gyre of discourse swirling around American politics. On blogs and podcasts, the commentariat has marvelled at the emergence of an elusive bipartisan consensus. And well they should: the most recent polling shows that an astounding seventy-one per cent of the population opposes data-center construction in their areas.<\/em><\/p>\n

Equally astonishing, if not yet equally remarked upon, is the consensus about A.I. itself. Sixty-nine per cent of Americans are \u201cconcerned\u201d about the technology\u2019s role in society, according to a study that used data from NORC at the University of Chicago. A poll conducted by NBC last spring found that A.I. is less popular than such societal darlings as ICE, Donald Trump, and J. D. Vance.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last, an article about AI I can really get into.\u00a0 The following quote is from the article by Becca Rothfeld in the September 30, New Yorker newsletter titled: The Humanism Driving the Anti-AI Movement.\u00a0 You might be surprised.\u00a0 Want a copy?\u00a0 Ask me. “In the past year, data centers have emerged as a central … Continue reading The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement – The New Yorker<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4127,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}