{"id":238913,"date":"2026-06-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/the-existential-threats-to-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:55:09","slug":"the-existential-threats-to-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/the-existential-threats-to-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"The existential threats to artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/4629470\/existential-threats-to-artificial-intelligence\/\">The existential threats to artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/4629470\/existential-threats-to-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/4629470\/existential-threats-to-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-30 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.washingtonexaminer.com\">www.washingtonexaminer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The focus on the potential threats AI poses to society has overshadowed its existential threats.<\/li>\n<li>Despite industry optimism, AI faces a serious public relations problem with widespread public skepticism and fear, particularly regarding job losses and privacy.<\/li>\n<li>Public opposition to large-scale data centers is growing, delaying or canceling many projects due to concerns about energy consumption, water use, and pollution.<\/li>\n<li>Proposed regulations, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; plans, could stifle AI development by encouraging federal control and reducing competition in the industry.<\/li>\n<li>The energy demands of AI are significant and face obstacles from public policy favoring intermittent and unreliable &#8220;renewable&#8221; energy sources, which are inadequate for the technology&#8217;s needs.<\/li>\n<li>The future of AI depends on societal acceptance, regulation, and adequate energy supply, with geopolitical implications as other nations like China invest heavily in AI development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The existential threats to artificial intelligence https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/4629470\/existential-threats-to-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-30 10:00:00 Source Domain: www.washingtonexaminer.com The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/iStock-2107612972.webp?resize=1200,683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-238913","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\/238913"}],"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=238913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238915,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238913\/revisions\/238915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}