Steven Bartlett with Kevin O'Leary and Cenk Uygur
AI could create new industries or push professionals out of work. Who should pay for the transition: companies building the technology, or the communities asked to support it?
Kevin O'Leary asserts that foreign adversaries, particularly China, are covertly funding local opposition to American AI data centers to deliberately stall US technological and military dominance.
Cenk Uygur counters that local resistance to data centers is an organic reaction to rising community energy bills and insists that private corporations, not taxpayers, must bear these infrastructure costs.
Regarding labor, Uygur warns that AI will eliminate large categories of work, pushing governments toward a stronger social safety net and fights over UBI and corporate taxation.