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Kamala Harris viciously mocked with resurfaced bumbling ‘two words’ explanation of AI after desperate call
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.
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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.»
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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.»
Digital’s Lindsay Kornick and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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Iran has promoted a new system encouraging citizens to report information about Iranians living abroad, effectively crowdsourcing surveillance of the diaspora through a website and messaging platforms including Telegram, according to Iranian media reports and an Iranian official source who confirmed the program to Fox News Digital.
The platform, known as Alaj — Persian for «remedy» or «cure» — asks users to provide information on people overseas whom it accuses of acting against Iran’s national interests or security. Iran International reported that tips could be submitted through the Alaj website, a Telegram bot and Iran’s Bale messaging service. The outlet reported that Iranian state television and the Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Fars News Agency also promoted the initiative.
An Iranian official source confirmed to Fox News Digital that Alaj and the Telegram chatbot were established as a new system through which certain individuals could report information about Iranians living abroad. The source said the website was subsequently taken down after the project drew significant criticism inside Iran.
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Iranian members of the diaspora, activists, gathered in front of the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin during the ‘United Against Executions in Iran’ protest on January 27, 2024. Organized by the Echo Iran group, this protest condemned the increase in death sentences by the rulers of the Islamic Republic of Iran. (Echo Iran/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
The website did go offline shortly after its public rollout, although the reason for its suspension remains disputed.
Iran International reported that Alaj claimed to have identified and monitored 1,600 people, including roughly 600 identified through reports submitted by members of the public. Those numbers have not been independently verified. The platform published names and photographs of Iranians abroad and, in some cases, national identification numbers, dates of birth and fathers’ names, according to the outlet.
For Iranian-American journalist and foreign policy analyst Lisa Daftari, the most consequential element is not simply that Tehran is collecting information, but that it is asking Iranians to report on one another.
«Even if it’s just the perception that other Iranians can report you or can get you in trouble or that this app exists, it makes a lot of people fearful,» Daftari told Fox News Digital. «You’ll think twice before going to that next protest.»
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Protesters supporting regime change in Iran hold a rally in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2026, days after U.S. and Israeli strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and sparked retaliatory missile and drone attacks by Iran. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Daftari said the fear is particularly acute for members of the Iranian diaspora who still have relatives inside the country.
«Now your face could be captured, you can get in trouble,» she said. «If you have family in Iran, they can get into trouble.»
Daftari described the approach as a digital extension of a much older system of control, arguing that Iran’s clerical establishment has spent decades creating uncertainty over whether neighbors, colleagues or acquaintances might report one another to authorities.
«Now the regime wants to take this show on the road and do that here, here in the West,» Daftari said. «They want to intimidate people. And it works.»
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Daftari said she has experienced that intimidation personally for years. «I’ve been followed, I’ve been hacked multiple times, I have been approached in person in L.A., in New York, even at the airport,» she told Fox News Digital.
She said that after one major hacking incident compromised her social media accounts as well as her personal and professional email, she was contacted by her local FBI office and began working closely with agents.
Daftari said hackers also obtained private photographs of her in a bikini while she was on vacation and sent them to her husband. «The message they want to send is very clear, that we know where you are, we can reach you,» she said. «And obviously the point is to intimidate and silence those who speak out, who report, who speak the truth and talk about all the crimes of this regime.»
She said the effects extend beyond prominent journalists or activists. Years ago, while filming at a Los Angeles cafe where Iranian Americans were watching a World Cup game, Daftari said she saw people attempting to hide their faces from the camera out of fear that footage could reach Iran and expose relatives there to retaliation.
The calculation, she said, illustrates why a system such as Alaj can have an impact even if a target never knows whether information about them has actually been submitted.
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A demonstrator shouts anti-war slogans while participating in a protest near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 28, 2026. Protesters, some carrying Iranian and American flags, gathered to voice opposition to a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation targeting Iran’s leadership. (Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The threat has also changed Daftari’s own behavior.
She recalled being unable to stop thinking about security when the location of her father’s memorial service had to be announced publicly after his death. Daftari said she routinely considers where she parks, what details she shares online and security vulnerabilities at places she visits. «It does silence a lot of people and it does change the freedom by which we think we can operate here in the United States where we believe we have full freedom,» Daftari said.
«Their intimidation works,» she added. «It works to a certain extent on each individual.»
Daftari said the broader campaign should also shape how Americans understand the confrontation with Tehran, arguing that the threat extends beyond Iran’s nuclear program.
Military members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in western Tehran, Iran (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
«It’s not just about nuclear weapons, it’s about a deadly ideology that has made its way here to U.S. soil,» she said. «We have to understand that.»
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Battle over Daylight Saving Time erupts as push to stop changing clocks hits Senate wall
The battle over Americans’ clocks reemerged in an unlikely way over the weekend, with President Donald Trump picking a fight with one of his top allies over the issue.
There have been many fights in Congress over the nearly two years that Trump has been in office for his second term that either ended in partisan victory or gloriously fizzled out, but one has quietly gone onto the shelf despite his pressure on Republicans to do something about it.
And that fight is over allowing states to voluntarily observe Daylight Saving Time year-round to effectively do away with the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks. It’s a popular issue with voters and the president, and there’s a bill that passed the House this summer to enact the change. But it’s a policy issue that has divided both sides of the aisle and ground to a halt in the upper chamber.
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has been one of the more vocal opponents of the bill, vowing to block any attempts to fast-track it on the floor. That resistance earned him a Truth Social post from Trump, who over the weekend shared his personal phone number in a bid to pressure the lawmaker to change his stance on Daylight Saving Time.
«Almost everybody wants «The Sunshine Protection Act» to pass, except for Tom Cotton,» Trump said. «To the Great People of Arkansas, please let your Senator know it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN for the United States Senate, and for America, itself.»
Cotton responded, and noted that Congress has tackled Daylight Saving Time before, only to roll back the change shortly after.
«No one likes changing the clock, me included, but Congress has enacted permanent Daylight Saving Time multiple times before and repealed it each time once Americans experienced absurdly late sunrises in the winter,» Cotton said on X. «Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll always put Arkansas first.»
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In the 1970s, lawmakers did enact year-round Daylight Saving Time. But Americans rapidly soured on the change, especially parents whose children had to wait in the dark for the school bus. It was repealed about a year later.
And Cotton recently answered an off-the-cuff question from a fellow Republican during their weekly closed-door policy lunches, a source told Digital, where he made a similar case as his response to Trump. No one pushed back during the meeting.
The issue of Daylight Saving Time, and supporting a permanent fix or sticking to the status quo is more geographical than political.
It’s, in part, mountainous and Western states versus coastal states. On one side of the spectrum are lawmakers like Sens. Rick Scott, R-Fla., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., who introduced a Senate version of the bill last year.
«Every year, more Americans grow more frustrated setting their clocks back and forth, and every winter folks in Washington state despair at the prospect of losing an hour of precious sunlight when we are forced off Daylight Saving Time,» Murray said in a statement at the time.
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While lawmakers in landlocked states out West, like Sens. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., warn that it would cause kids in their states to go to school in the dark.
«I can see where Florida likes it for tee times at certain times of the year, but it doesn’t work so well for moms and dads putting kids on buses when the sunrise in Western Montana wouldn’t be till 9:30 in the morning. It’s not going to work for us,» Daines told CNN in July.
The most vital currency in the Senate is floor time. And lawmakers won’t have much floor time to spare when they return after the midterm elections in November. Though it’s popular, more pressing issues like the National Defense Authorization Act, supplemental funding for the war and a looming government funding battle will likely take precedence.
And Republican leaders acknowledge that it’s not as easy a simple yes-or-no vote for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
«Depends where you’re living in the country and the impact — what it would be, in your own home state,» Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in July. «So it’s not as simple as what one state might like.»
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Flávio Bolsonaro evitará debatir cara a cara con Lula y se enfocará en sumar los votos de los otros candidatos de derecha
Jair Bolsonaro sabe que tiene todo para ser el próximo presidente de Brasil. Ningún candidato que ganó la primera vuelta desde el retorno de la democracia perdió el balotaje. Nada hace prever que esta vez será distinto. Su rival y actual presidente, Lula da Silva, está en problemas, después de perder el primer turno de las elecciones celebradas el domingo pasado.
Hay otro dato que favorece al postulante de la derecha brasileña más dura: históricamente, desde 1989, quien gana el estratégico estado de Minas Gerais se convierte en el nuevo presidente del país.
El hijo de Jair Bolsonaro ganó en Minas Gerais con casi cinco puntos de ventaja sobre Lula, mucho más de los casi dos que le sacó a nivel nacional.
El balotaje se celebrará el domingo 25 de octubre.
¿Cuál será ahora la estrategia de la derecha?
La campaña del bolsonarismo sabe que tiene cartas ganadoras.
Puede pescar los pocos votos que le faltan para doblegar a Lula entre los votantes de los candidatos de derecha (como Ronaldo Caiao y Romeu Zema, o el antisistema Renan Santos) que sumaron en conjunto poco más del 5% de los votos. Por lo pronto, Zuma ya anunció su apoyo, aunque solo alcanzó el 0,27% de los sufragios..
El domingo, Flávio Bolsonaro obtuvo el 47,03% contra el 45,16% de Lula. Pero además, el bolsonarismo y las fuerzas conservadoras lograron una amplia victoria en el Congreso.
Si llega al gobierno y pacta con el “Centrao”, esa amalgama de partidos de centroderecha que suele dar gobernabilidad al presidente de turno, no le será difícil llegar a acuerdos para llevar adelante sus objetivos. Incluso podría darse el lujo de avanzar con el “impeachment” de los jueces de la Corte Suprema que considera enemigos de su familia y que encarcelaron a su padre, condenado a 27 años de prisión por golpismo.
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