Should America hit the brakes on AI? Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says yes. Elon Musk agrees. Sam Altman wants to pace the frontier. JD Vance called the whole thing a possible Trojan horse.
Heartland Institute president James Taylor joins Victory News to push back on the growing chorus calling for a slowdown in AI development. With Dario Amodei, Elon Musk and Sam Altman all urging caution, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna floating a kill switch, Taylor’s position is blunt: a low tech America is a losing America, and falling behind China is the worst outcome on the table.
From there the conversation covers his free market case for data centers, and why the arguments against them keep collapsing. Taylor argues the public pressure is actually producing innovation in how tech companies source power and manage water and explains why Heartland backed the US withdrawal from the UN climate treaty, why “hottest ever recorded” is doing a lot of quiet work when the record only runs 100 years, and why cooling periods, not warming ones, historically brought failed crops and extreme weather.
