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With President Joe Bidendropping out of the race , Vice President Kamala Harris may become the Democrats ’ new nominee .
In annunciate his plans , Biden offered his “ full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year , ” whileHarris saidher “ purpose is to win and earn this nomination . ” That said , it ’s not clearwhether other Democratic politician will dispute her for the nomination at an exposed convention , or through some other selection process .
If Harris is selected , the Democrats will have a presidential nominee with root in the Bay Area — she was born in Oakland — anda long relationship with the technical school industry . ( Donald Trump ’s running play fellow JD Vance is alsodeeply connected to Silicon Valley . ) She was San Francisco ’s district attorney , then California ’s attorney general , before being elect to the Senate in 2016 .
VCs like John Doerr and Ron Conway wereamong her early suspensor , and as a presidential candidate , she was quicklyendorsed by LinkedIn co - founder Reid Hoffman . Other industry figures , including Netflix co - founding father Reed Hastings , have beenmore circumspector phone for an undefended convention .
Some of the industry ’s critics have complained that shedidn’t do enoughas attorney general to curb the power of technical school colossus as they rise .
At the same clock time , she has been willing to criticize technical school CEO and call for more ordinance . As a senator , she iron out the big social electronic internet over misinformation . During the 2020 presidential safari , when rival Elizabeth Warren was call for the breakup of big technical school , Harris was asked whether company like Amazon , Google and Facebook should be broken up . She instead saidthey should be “ regulated in a way that we can assure the American consumer can be certain that their concealment is not being compromise . ”
As frailty president , Harris has also speak about the potential for modulate AI , saying that she and President Biden“reject the false choice that evoke we can either protect the public or boost innovation . ”
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Biden hadissued an executive ordercalling for company to set new standard around the development of AI , and Harris say these “ voluntary commitments are an initial whole step toward a dependable AI future tense with more to fare , because , as history has shown , in the absence of regulation and strong government inadvertence , some engineering companies choose to prioritize net income over the wellbeing of their customers , the safety equipment of our community , and the stability of our commonwealth . ”
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz late channelise to business that the Biden administration will “ overregulate ” AI as one of their reason forsupporting Donald Trump .
On another hot - button issue , a late bill that would ban TikTokif its parent company ByteDance does n’t sell it , Harris said , “ We need to handle with the owner , and we have national security concerns about the owner of TikTok , but we have no design to ban TikTok . ”
Harris has been less outspoken on the issues around cryptocurrency , though she would presumably supportthe Biden administration ’s crypto regularisation .
