{"id":236898,"date":"2026-06-25T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:30:16","slug":"the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI backlash is only getting started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2026\/06\/25\/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started\">The AI backlash is only getting started<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2026\/06\/25\/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2026\/06\/25\/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 04:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.economist.com\">www.economist.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have sparked significant concern among tech professionals and are influencing voters, leading to AI becoming a prominent political issue in the West.<\/li>\n<li>Protests against data centres in America have thwarted nearly $100 billion worth of AI-related projects.<\/li>\n<li>In the U.S., AI megadonors have invested tens of millions of dollars into a Manhattan congressional race.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 40% of American voters support banning AI from most industries based on recent polls.<\/li>\n<li>In South Korea, workers at Samsung have threatened to strike for special payouts after experiencing large profits in the chipmaking sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI backlash is only getting started https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2026\/06\/25\/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started Publish Date: 2026-06-25 04:33:00 Source Domain: www.economist.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/content-assets\/images\/20260627_LDD002.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-236898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236900,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236898\/revisions\/236900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}