From a Utah datacentre fight to citizens' assemblies: how to actually democratise AI
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-14
A Guardian op-ed argues AI's biggest decisions can't stay inside San Francisco labs. Context: OpenAI paused frontier training amid rogue-agent reports, Australia's Senate sought testimony from OpenAI and Anthropic chiefs, and a Utah datacentre fight became a testing ground for citizens' assemblies as a model of democratic AI oversight.
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