The Next WebAna-Maria Stanciuc
OpenAI’s Lehane likens backing a data centre ban to the 2002 Iraq vote
AI will be the number-one issue of the 2028 US presidential election, says Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer. His memo, titled “2028: The AI Election”, sets out five questions he says candidates must answer to build an AI agenda.
Politico published the Chris Lehane memo in full on Monday, a day before the US midterm elections.
Lehane writes that 2028 has echoes of 1932, the last peacetime presidential race held during a change on this scale. Franklin D.
Roosevelt won it, and his New Deal reimagined the social contract.
A candidate who sets out a “compelling third path” will have a chance to define a new contract, Lehane writes. That path runs between those who would let AI advance “without speed limits” and those who would keep control over the technology “in the hands of a self-appointed elite”.
By early October, one in…
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