Peter Thiel says America's anti-AI backlash is a self-inflicted wound
Source: Business Insider ·
"It's often somewhat too easy to simply blame it on China," Peter Thiel told Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on the "MD Meets" podcast.
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Peter Thiel told Mathias Döpfner that blaming China for AI backlash was "too easy."Niels Starnick/Niels Starnick/BILDPeter Thiel said he doesn't believe China to be the driving force behind anti-AI sentiment in the US."This is mainly what we're doing to ourselves," he said.Thiel railed against the Pope, calling him a "useful idiot for the CCP."Americans are souring on AI. Peter Thiel said the US mostly has itself to blame, not China.A growing cohort of tech executives blame China, America's AI adversary, for people turning on the tech. Executives from Garry Tan to Kevin O'Leary have accused data center discourse of being a psyop.In a conversation on Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner's "MD Meets" podcast, Thiel said that while he was "inclined to believe" China could be fueling anti-AI content in the US — it wasn't the driving force of the change in sentiment."This is mainly what we're doing to ourselves," said Thiel. "It's often somewhat too easy to simply blame it on China."Thiel is…