Data for Progress

It would also halt advanced AI development until a new federal regulatory body was established to set clear rules and processes for AI safety.

The polling firm Data for Progress asked more than 1,300 likely voters about the bill.

According to survey results released, 68% of them said they would support the proposal to temporarily pause advanced AI development and permanently prohibit the development of super-intelligent programs, while just 25% said they'd oppose it.

For many of us, going further isn't a choice.

Okay, give me like a couple ideas.

So from a Data for Progress poll, so this is September 4th tonight.

So this is after the news of Hugging Face, but maybe pretty close to when that was being discussed.

They asked if Congress should pass...

But, uh, the American people don't agree with him at all.

Recent Data for Progress poll shows that 68% of Americans support the idea of Cong- Congress enacting legislation that would slow the development of AI, and there are people working on doing exactly that, and they have money behind them.

They're offering a tangible vision of what steps need to be taken now, and that includes my next guest, who's the head of a super PAC that's been running ads, spending money on the opposite side of other AI barons in these midterm races who don't want to be regulated.

Former Democratic Congressman Brad Carson is now the co-founder of Public First Action, a super PAC advocating for AI regulation, and he joins me now.

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And to be clear, he got pushed out from Data for Progress.

He's not there anymore.

He's

The average citizen does not seem to like, and this is a bipartisan swath of issues, there's a really...

Yeah, there's very few things that Democrats and Republicans and Independents all agree on, but the Cato Institute, Data for Progress, multiple things have been tracking net favorability ranking ratings for flock cameras.

Negative 18% among Democrats, negative 28% among Independents, and negative 13% among Republicans.

Very few things in this country that we can find people so united against, but the average person in America really does not seem to like, based on these polls, being tracked and having their right to privacy potentially violated when they have not necessarily been committing any criminal violations.

Drop date, right?

A- yeah, asking the American people, we sponsored it, uh, Data for Progress did it with...

We did it with Zeteo.

Uh, asking the public, "Do you think that Trump went to war with Iran in part to cover up the Epstein, get the Epstein stuff off the front pages?"

higher ed? So one of the fascinating things we discovered as we looked into public trust in higher ed is that we found that public trust has declined overall, but it has not declined evenly across institution types.

So Data for Progress did a great poll in December of 2024, where they asked Americans what they thought about, you know, different types of higher ed institutions and community colleges and trades and technical schools were at the top.

Also coming in very strong were public universities of various types.

Then there was a big drop off to private liberal arts colleges and coming in last were Ivy League universities.

And, uh, it's now showing some realities that are kind of hard to accept.

Well, a new poll, uh, now released by Data for Progress reveals that majority of US voters oppose a proposal to deepen military integration between the United States and Israel.

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77% want to expand bus service and provide discounted fares, and 75% endorse zoning changes that would help create bikeable, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods.

Plus, 50% of, 57% of voters said housing affordability was the issue in their community that needed attention or investment most urgently." This was by Aiseli Karabekmez in Data for Progress.

So this was really interesting.

It found that people, a lot of people have urbanist interests, and they would vote for it, for s- spending money on this stuff.

The policies have faced lawsuits and criticism for their broad effects on immigrant families and workers.

On U.S.-Israel integration, a Data for Progress poll of one two hundred and seventeen likely voters, conducted between August third and seventh for Demand Progress and the Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project, found sixty-one percent oppose a provision in the twenty twenty-seven NDAA that would expand integration of Israeli weapons companies into the Pentagon.

Opposition reached seventy-eight percent among Democrats and seventy-three percent among independents.

Section two nineteen would establish a U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative on AI, missile defense, and counter-drone systems.