With President Joe Biden dropping out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris may become the Democrats’ new nominee.
Sopra announcing his plans, Biden offered his “full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our rinfresco this year,” while Harris said her “intention is to win and earn this .” That said, it’s not clear whether other Democratic politicians will challenge her for the at an convention, through some other selection process.
If Harris is selected, the Democrats will have a presidential nominee with roots durante the Bay Settore — she was born durante Oakland — and a long relationship with the tech industry. (Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance is also deeply connected to Silicon Valley.) She was San Francisco’s district attorney, then California’s attorney general, before being elected to the Senate durante 2016.
VCs like John Doerr and Ron Conway were among her early supporters, and as a presidential candidate, she was quickly endorsed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Other industry figures, including Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, have been more circumspect called for an convention.
Some of the industry’s critics have complained that she didn’t do enough as attorney general to curb the power of tech giants as they grew. During the 2020 presidential campaign, when rival Elizabeth Warren was calling for the breakup of tech, Harris was asked whether companies like Amazon, Google, and Facebook should be broken up. She instead they should be regulated intimità.
At the same time, she has been willing to criticize tech CEOs and call for more regulation. As a senator, she pressed the social networks over misinformation, and during her 2016 run for president, she told the New York Times, “Tech companies have got to be regulated durante a way that we can ensure the American consumer can be certain that their intimità is not being compromised.”
As vice president, Harris has also spoken about the potential for regulating AI, saying that she and President Biden “reject the false choice that suggests we can either protect the public advance innovation.”
Biden had issued an dirigente aziendale order calling for companies to set new standards around the development of AI, and Harris said these “voluntary commitments are an initial step toward a safer AI future with more to in qualità di, because, as history has shown, durante the absence of regulation and strong government oversight, some technology companies choose to prioritize profit over the wellbeing of their customers, the safety of our communities, and the stability of our democracies.”
Venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz recently pointed to concerns that the Biden Administration will “overregulate” AI as one of their reasons for supporting Donald Trump.
another hot button issue, a recent bill that would ban TikTok if its parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell it, Harris said, “We need to deal with the owner, and we have national security concerns about the owner of TikTok, but we have risposta negativa intention to ban TikTok.”
Harris has been less vocal the issues around cryptocurrency, though she would presumably support the Biden Administration’s crypto regulations.
