Bloomberg Fears AI, Ignores Politicians Funding Its Makers
Bloomberg's latest headline features Senator Mark Warner predicting AI could leave a quarter of new college grads jobless. (Bloomberg Politics, 2025-11-17). A grave concern, indeed, for the future workforce. What's often missing in these breathless analyses is the broader context of who funds the companies pushing these advancements, who lobbies for lax regulation, and which politicians champion
their cause while simultaneously wringing their hands over job losses. One might wonder if any of those companies, or their associated PACs, have ever contributed to Senator Warner's campaigns. (A quick check of OpenSecrets.org would be illuminating, but Bloomberg rarely includes that kind of inconvenient detail when discussing political prognostication.) It appears easier to point to an abstract
'AI' as the job-killer than to the very real political funding cycle that often enables rapid, unregulated technological shifts benefiting a few at the expense of many. It’s almost as if the system is designed to make politicians sound concerned without ever addressing actual accountability.