{"id":81053,"date":"2026-11-08T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/1-0-to-humankind-us-midterms-vote-puts-ai-datacentres-and-the-broligarchy-back-in-their-box-heather-stewart\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T12:55:39","slug":"1-0-to-humankind-us-midterms-vote-puts-ai-datacentres-and-the-broligarchy-back-in-their-box-heather-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/1-0-to-humankind-us-midterms-vote-puts-ai-datacentres-and-the-broligarchy-back-in-their-box-heather-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box | Heather Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/nov\/08\/ai-clog-public-bodies-local-authorities-onslaught-chatbot-generated-correspondence\">\u2018AI clog\u2019: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/nov\/06\/the-guardian-view-on-the-ai-backlash-american-voters-want-a-say-in-their-future\">Editorial: the AI backlash \u2013 Silicon Valley\u2019s political power is cracking<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>Last week\u2019s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who lined up at his inauguration two chaotic years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, the cost of living squeeze unleashed by Trump\u2019s war in Iran was a big driver of the Democrat wave. But AI was also on the ballot \u2013 in many places, literally.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/nov\/08\/us-midterms-ai-datacentres-broligarchy-voter-backlash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI \u2018AI clog\u2019: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints Editorial: the AI backlash \u2013 Silicon Valley\u2019s political power is cracking Last week\u2019s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning &#8230; <a title=\"1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box | Heather Stewart\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/1-0-to-humankind-us-midterms-vote-puts-ai-datacentres-and-the-broligarchy-back-in-their-box-heather-stewart\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 1-0 to humankind? US midterms vote puts AI, datacentres and the broligarchy back in their box | Heather Stewart\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81053","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=81053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}