Does New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani worry we’re in an AI bubble? Yes. Does he trust AI industry leaders? No.
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\n\nYou've supported New York State setting a one-year pause
\n\nI mean, what to you is the solve for this?
\n\nis a recognition of the costs that come with AI.
\n\nSo much of what we are talking about
\n\nis based on a very limited amount of information
\n\nthat we have, and that is by design
\n\nabout these incredibly powerful companies,
\n\nwe also are talking about a level of opacity
\n\nfor us to make an informed conclusion
\n\nis actually costing us as a society.
\n\nYou mean sort of an absence of data about energy use
\n\nor do you mean the idea that this technology
\n\nis sort of mythical rather than infrastructure?
\n\nthere's an attempt to make this technology
\n\nseem as if it is mythical or as if it is divine.
\n\nin the idea that this is so complicated
\n\nshould be that we trust those who created it.
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