Dean Phillips

Donald Trump took to Truth Social in the early morning hours of Tuesday to opine on the state of his race to win back the White House this November. And while that’s not unusual, Trump decision to coin a new nickname for himself certainly is. The new name? Honest Don, if you can believe it.Trump started his tweet (or his Truth, in the parlance of his social media platform) by mentioning Dean Phillips, the Democratic challenger to President Joe Biden who had a less than impressive primary race before finally dropping out…

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang warned that not enough is being done to prepare for artificial intelligence (AI), particularly for its impact on the labor market, which he said could cause massive job losses.  While speaking to Fox News Digital this week, Yang emphasized that there are going to be “dramatic changes” that will come with AI and that the institutions around the country are not prepared for the upcoming shift.  “When I was running for president in 2020, I was talking about…

Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechWhen I first saw a video of Dean Phillips, I thought it was a deepfake of Ron DeSantis. The guy’s head has roughly the same shape and hair color as the Florida governor’s, although his features are slightly less troll-like. Since then I’ve learned that no, actually, he’s a totally different guy. As a listless 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, Phillips still sorta…

Florida Governor Ron Desantis, who often sounds like an AI chatbot, dropped out of the 2024 Presidential Election on Sunday, just a week after OpenAI banned ChatGPT for political campaigns. It begs the question, was Ron Desantis running on ChatGPT this whole time?I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future Tech“People want to know and trust that they are interacting with a real person,” OpenAI said in a blog post last week, talking about ChatGPT but also, somehow, Desantis. “For that reason, we don’t allow builders…

Microsoft-backed OpenAI has banned the developer of a bot mimicking Democratic presidential hopeful Congressman Dean Phillips, the first action the ChatGPT maker has taken in response to what it sees as a misuse of its artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a political campaign, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate…

Brothers Matt and Scott Krisiloff — allies of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — were deeply involved in Rep. Dean Phillips’ presidential campaign before leaving to launch a super PAC in support of the Minnesota Democrat’s longshot 2024 bid, as well as a dark money group that is running ads in New Hampshire, according to interviews, internal documents, and public records obtained by Rolling Stone.  Campaign finance lawyers say the Phillips campaign and We Deserve Better, the super PAC, are testing the limits of federal…

Billionaire hedge fund chief and burgeoning Internet Main Character Bill Ackman used the afternoon of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to claim the civil rights leader would have been against the movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education and businesses. It’s a claim that MLK’s daughter has previously rejected. Ackman made the comments during a Space conversation on X (formerly Twitter) alongside Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips and X owner Elon Musk on Monday. The discussion came…

A super PAC with ties to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is lavishing money on some embarrassingly bad ads supporting President Joe Biden’s longshot challenger, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.). According to disclosures, We Deserve Better, launched last year, has spent $665,000 so far boosting Phillips, including $154,000 on TV ads.  Phillips, a late entry into the presidential race, is pouring his energy into New Hampshire, operating on the theory that a triumph in the first-in-the nation primary, where Biden will not appear…

Photo: J. Scott Applewhite (AP)With calls for a national ban against TikTok growing more and more common by the week, particularly in Congress, it’s never been a tougher time to be a lawmaker publicly supporting the app. Still, a vocal minority of House and Senate Democrats—no Republicans—are defying those calls and doing so on the platform despite recent federal laws barring the app on government devices.The few politicians willing to stick their necks out on the short-form video app overwhelmingly come from one party.…