Former Vice President and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris is being mocked over a resurfaced clip of her “two letters” explanation of artificial intelligence after she posted a call to slow its development.
Harris, who previously served as the Biden administration’s AI czar, posted a lengthy statement on AI on Monday. In her post, Harris called for President Donald Trump to “do his job to protect America’s interests by pursuing a treaty with countries like China to stop dangerous uses of AI, limit the speed of its development, and adopt global standards for testing.”
In response, social media users recalled Harris’ attempt at explaining AI as vice president in 2023.
“I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing,” Harris said. “First of all, it’s two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is is it’s about machine learning.”
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She continued, saying, “And so, the machine is taught — and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine — and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process.”
“So,” she went on even further, “to reduce it down to its most simple point, this is part of the issue that we have here is thinking about what is going into a decision, and then whether that decision is actually legitimate and reflective of the needs and the life experiences of all the people.”
After Harris’ X post on Monday, conservative influencer “Western Lensman” reposted the 2023 video of Harris, writing, “Kamala Harris on AI when it’s not a written statement crafted by a team of consultants.”
National security and global economics expert Kyle Bass reacted, “There’s not a chance in hell Kamala wrote this. Have you ever heard her say ‘frontier,’ ‘advancing,’ and ‘intelligence’ in the same sentence? Until now, her misfits had never produced anything this un-Kamala and then posted it on social media.”
Columnist S.L. Kanthan wrote, “One of the dumbest women now wants America to voluntarily slow down progress in AI.” He posted another video of Harris explaining cloud storage.
Harris said, “No longer are you necessarily keeping those private files in some file cabinet that’s locked in the basement of the house. It’s on your laptop, and it’s then, therefore, up here in this cloud, that exists above us, right?”
Author and national security expert Sarah Adams commented on Harris’ AI post, writing, “No one is looking for your thoughts on ‘intelligence.'”
Another user, influencer Andrew Aziz, and several others suggested that Harris’ post itself was AI-generated.
In her post, Harris wrote that AI is “advancing at an alarming speed,” emphasizing what she characterized as industry leaders’ call to “responsibly slow the pace of frontier AI development.”
She wrote that “a slowdown is critical in order to ensure AI serves the public interest,” saying, “Pacing AI development does not mean giving up on this technology’s potential to produce life-saving benefits in fields like medicine — some of which we are already seeing. Rather, it is about setting up sensible guardrails so that AI does not completely escape human control and endanger our safety and collective future.”
Besides action from Trump, Harris called on Congress to “work at an urgent pace” to provide AI oversight, saying, “The United States must continue to lead the world in developing AI technology even as we seek to impose common-sense safety standards.”
Harris is not the only prominent Democrat to have called for increased AI regulation recently. Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats during a private fundraiser in New York City on Thursday to place artificial intelligence near the center of their political agenda ahead of the midterms and the 2028 presidential race while warning that the technology could become dangerous without greater oversight as voters increasingly raise concerns about jobs, privacy and data centers.
“This is something that is moving very fast in private hands, and if we don’t get on top of it, I think can be dangerous,” Obama said. “If we do get on top of it, I do think it’s beneficial. I genuinely think it’s going to accelerate, for example, drug development in ways that can help us cure diseases. I do think that this can help us figure out pathways for a clean energy future.”
Meanwhile, Trump on Monday rejected growing calls for safeguards and restrictions on AI, declaring that the technology needs a “STRONG AND SMART” president rather than additional restraints.
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He suggested that “there is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers, and the only one that is happy about it is China,” adding, “WHOEVER WINS AI, WINS! We are leading China, and all others, and will continue to do so.”
Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
