Speaking on stage at the AI Now Institute and More Perfect Union’s “People’s AI Assembly,” actress and advocate Ilana Glazer asked the New York City mayor if he would push Gov. Hochul to sign the “Responsible Data Center Development Act,” which passed New York state legislation earlier this year; Mamdani responded with a simple and resolute “yes.”
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Numerous surveys find that anti-AI and specifically anti-data-center sentiments have grown nationwide over the past year. This collective anxiety over AI development was palpable on Monday night at the “People’s AI Assembly,” where the entry line at New York City’s Webster Hall wrapped comfortably around the block. Attendees included college students holding “no data center” signs in hand, concerned parents of school-age children facing a future seemingly inundated with AI, and even some tech workers employed by the very companies selling the technology.
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