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Donald Trump’s enthusiastic backing for Big Tech and artificial intelligence is reportedly alienating some of his once-loyal supporters, according to the Financial Times, just weeks before the US midterm elections.
Why it mattersThe useful signal is political rather than technical: AI has become part of the argument over what Trump’s movement stands for, not merely a race for investment and influence. That gives the technology another constituency problem to solve, alongside regulation, jobs and public trust. The FT’s report identifies backlash within the Maga base, but the supplied account does not establish its scale or show whether it will change voting behaviour. Still, when AI boosterism starts irritating the people who usually applaud the booster, someone has probably turned the volume up too far.
Discuss: Can opposition to Big Tech and AI become a serious fault line inside Trump’s coalition, or will economic optimism outweigh the unease before the midterms?
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