{"id":69829,"date":"2026-03-24T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai-is-going-to-emerge-as-a-key-issue-concerning-voters-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:04:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:04:51","slug":"as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai-is-going-to-emerge-as-a-key-issue-concerning-voters-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai-is-going-to-emerge-as-a-key-issue-concerning-voters-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier\/","title":{"rendered":"As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a political divide over AI but few leaders are taking a strong stand. It\u2019s time for that to change<\/p>\n<p>In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/11\/technology\/ai-trump-executive-order.html\">neutered<\/a> states\u2019 ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. This action pointedly supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-executive-order-ai-laws.html\">industry lobbyists<\/a> keen to avoid any constraints and consequences on their deployment of AI, while undermining the efforts of consumers, advocates, and industry associations concerned about AI\u2019s harms who have spent years pushing for state regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s actions have clarified the ideological alignments around AI within America\u2019s electoral factions. They set down lines on a new playing field for the midterm elections, prompting members of his party, the opposition, and all of us to consider where we stand in the debate over how and where to let AI transform our lives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/mar\/24\/midterm-elections-ai-voters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a political divide over AI but few leaders are taking a strong stand. It\u2019s time for that to change In December, the Trump administration signed an executive order that neutered states\u2019 ability to regulate AI by ordering his administration to both sue and withhold funds from states that try to do so. This &#8230; <a title=\"As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai-is-going-to-emerge-as-a-key-issue-concerning-voters-nathan-e-sanders-and-bruce-schneier\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As the US midterms approach, AI is going to emerge as a key issue concerning voters | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}