A.I. Loses the Popular Vote
A New Yorker Political Scene episode, "A.I. Loses the Popular Vote," features historian Jill Lepore in conversation with Tyler Foggatt on how the backlash to artificial intelligence shaped the 2026 midterms, where voters rejected data centers in forty of forty-one local ballot initiatives. Lepore places the industry's rebuke in the history of technology, science fiction futurism, and the idea of the "artificial state," and the two weigh whether congressional regulation and the Jensen Huang scandal will follow.
