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What Kamala Harris has said about AI, tech regulation, and more

by JohnoMK1992 on 7/22/24, 11:41 AM with 3 comments

• by honeybadger1 on 7/22/24, 11:50 AM

  Well, no one really thinks that her own opinions will be representative of the governments policy, other than publicly drumming up support from headless politics obsessed people. I am happy for that, because as a DA she was quite aggressive and has a questionable history of abusing her position of power with weirdly authoritarian logic.

  (Ref- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/923369723/lets-talk-about-kam...).

  "As district attorney of San Francisco, she declined to pursue the death penalty. But as attorney general of California, she defended the state's use of the death penalty. She essentially said: look, I'm doing my job. It's the largest attorney general's office, second to the U.S. attorney general. And after the Supreme Court ruled that California had basically put way too many people in prison, her office argued that they needed to have these folks in prison because they were essential to prison labor."

  Not a fan.