Vice President Kamala Harris is all but certain to become the Democratic presidential candidate. She was suddenly catapulted to front-runner status for the Democratic presidential nomination after President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed her for the position, and now key power brokers in the party have publicly backed her. If elected, Harris would be a president with roots in California’s Bay Area — the heart of the tech industry.
Despite her ties to this region, Harris is largely a cipher when it comes to tech policy. As vice president, she is inherently connected to every policy of the Biden administration, but it’s difficult to untangle which parts she would continue and which she would change. Her key focus areas as vice president — including artificial intelligence — and her interests as a senator and, before that, as California’s attorney general and San Francisco’s district attorney, provide a handful of insights into what she might prioritize if she should become president.
We know where she stands on climate, we have some sense of how she feels about privacy, and we have a whole array of tantalizing statements about AI, but there is a wide range of key questions that she has yet to be asked or has successfully avoided answering. She remains an enigma when it comes to tech antitrust and the TikTok ban. And she has yet to speak directly to the issues that most concern the moneyed donor class of Silicon Valley, such as crypto regulation.
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Kamala Harris Explains Cloud Computing
“No longer are you keeping those private files in some file cabinet. It’s on your laptop, and it’s then therefore up here in this cloud, that exists above us. It’s no longer in a physical place.”
Remember that time Kamala discovered how electric vehicles work?
“And there’s no sound or fumes….so how do you know that’s working?”
Has there ever been a dumber candidate?
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