Progressives steer Democratic Party toward heavy regulation of AI

Published September 26, 2026 5:00am ET



Progressive Democrats are jockeying to shape the Democratic Party’s approach to artificial intelligence, pushing for heavy restrictions on the rapidly developing industry.

The hard-left wing of the Democratic Party has been sharply critical of the AI industry’s rapid, largely unregulated growth, warning that the risks of the technology advancing faster than developers can keep pace with could be detrimental to humanity.

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