“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
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On the recordMarch 2, 2015
They probably get an outsized picture of our lack of will.
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Ash Carter
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Editor's note · Context

Carter noted foreign leaders might misinterpret U.S. budget issues as a lack of resolve.

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