The AI buildout is running headlong into a political backlash that tech and policy are not prepared for. Data center opposition is surging across both parties and all levels of government, while the macro debate about whether AI will create broad prosperity or mass displacement is playing out in viral essays and market selloffs in real time. AI will only become more salient in upcoming election cycles.

Join us for a panel discussion on this topic with leading thinkers on AI including Dean Ball and Jasmine Sun. What does an “AI for all Americans” agenda look like, and can such a vision be imagined before anti-AI populism becomes a dominant political force shaping tech and infrastructure policy?  Will democratic legitimacy become the third constraint, after chips and energy, on the American AI buildout?