This would be a huge mistake for conservatives to even pause to consider.
So Altman wants a government bailout because he’s made many promises he can’t keep, and many deals he can’t fulfill from existing revenue or any reasonably projected revenue.
No Republican should support this or even remotely consider it. But the AI lobby has already bought the allegiance of many. And they intend to up that spending, until they solidify unequal treatment in their favor and before the American people know what really just hit them. They are gunning for TBTF - too big to fail - status before it's too late.
They want liability immunity, regulatory moratoriums (concentrating more power in Washington), energy subsidies, zoning exemptions, and alterations of IP laws so they can suck up our land, water, and quality of life, not to mention scarce power, to acculturate people to addictive but useless slop under the pursuit of AGI rather than targeted industrial uses. And now they want a taxpayer guarantee of their reckless spending.
So those supporting this vile cronyism will try to use the China card, and they’ll make ridiculous analogies to the Manhattan Project, or the space race, or whatever other historically illiterate false binary they can get away with.
And they’ll hand the country over to the same people who kicked you off the internet or algorithmically suppressed you if you told the truth about COVID or anything else that offended their leftist mind control.
It’s madness. It’s terrible. And far too few are paying attention.