AI safety ‘doomers’ pouring cash into Minnesota’s Senate race for Sanders-backed lefty Peggy Flanagan

Source: New York Post

Silicon Valley-based AI safety “doomers” have waded into Minnesota’s US Senate race with thousands of dollars’ worth of donations to Democrat Peggy Flanagan – a Sen. Bernie Sanders-backed candidate who has called AI an “existential threat” to humanity, The Post has learned. Flanagan, the current lieutenant governor of Minnesota, is facing off against Republican challenger Michelle Tafoya for retiring Democratic Sen.