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Ted Cruz: “If you don't engage on this issue, the easy political…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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They don't trust it. They're scared of it. And I get that. And in fact, I Talk with a lot of the tech leaders and I say, look, If you don't engage on this issue, the easy political outcome, every Democrat and a number of Republicans are like, AI is horrible. We oppose it. And that if you look at the polling, that's the knee jerk response. I get that fear. I understand anytime you have economic dislocation, it is frightening, it is dangerous. (29:39–29:47)

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