Inside the secret meeting that led to the AI political resistance

In early January, a group of 90 or so political, community and thought leaders gathered in a New Orleans Marriott for a secret conference on artificial intelligence — so secret, in fact, that no one knew who else had been invited until they walked into the room. Church leaders and conservative academics were sitting next to labor union representatives. Progressive power brokers who’d drafted Bernie Sanders to run for president suddenly found themselves breathing the same air as MAGA talking heads. And the AI thought leaders who’d invited them to New Orleans were hoping that none of them would kill each other.