{"id":12036,"date":"2025-12-29T18:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/the-democratic-split-in-us-over-whether-to-befriend-ai-or-vilify-it\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:20:30","slug":"the-democratic-split-in-us-over-whether-to-befriend-ai-or-vilify-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/the-democratic-split-in-us-over-whether-to-befriend-ai-or-vilify-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic split in US over whether to befriend AI \u2014 or vilify it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become a common occurrence: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer posts a light-hearted video on social media. She\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSdPKv_jrQT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Christmas shopping<\/u><\/a>, or she\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSlB7OtjolR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>talking about her Michigan accent<\/u><\/a>\u00a0or she\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSknv8GDl0g\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>touting her administration\u2019s accomplishments<\/u><\/a>. And immediately, the comments start rolling in, all demanding the same thing: Say no to data centers in the state. Stop construction. \u201cAll I want for Christmas is legislation banning data centers in Michigan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National figures in the party are beginning to notice the anger. What began on the ground with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/18\/michigan-data-center-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>widespread protests<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/12\/28\/ai-job-losses-populism-democrats-bernie-sanders-00706680?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quelle <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s become a common occurrence: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer posts a light-hearted video on social media. She\u2019s\u00a0Christmas shopping, or she\u2019s\u00a0talking about her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3449,3410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technologie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}