Over the next nine months, leading up to the 2026 midterm elections, Americans should expect a massive wave of messaging aimed at raising anxiety over real and perceived job losses from artificial intelligence, a plan that left-leaning globalist billionaires hope will worsen voters' economic perceptions and help Democrats return to power.
The political strategy has three parts:
To convince Americans that massive job losses from artificial intelligence are inevitable.
To channel this fear and apathy to foster future support for a universal basic income (UBI).
To internalize populist concerns about artificial intelligence data centers increasing electricity and water bills for citizens in the short term.
This strategy, built over years, is backed by hundreds of millions of dollars from left-leaning Silicon Valley and a vast network of organizations and foundations, documented in the book “Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI” (HarperCollins). The three-pronged approach to creating fear and uncertainty has now entered an advanced stage.
Democrats are wasting no time. “Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a defining issue in the campaign of the new generation of Democrats,” Axios reported.
The tone is becoming increasingly populist: AI oligarchs will benefit, while ordinary citizens will pay the cost or lose their jobs. A Senate report, prepared by the Democratic staff of the HELP committee led by Bernie Sanders, warned that AI and automation could replace nearly 100 million jobs in the next decade.
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Even leading figures in the AI industry are playing their part. Week after week, they deliver alarming predictions that keep investors engaged, businesses engaged, and the public on edge.
A few weeks ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a nearly 20,000-word essay warning of a “massacre” of jobs by AI within 1 to 5 years. He said that up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs could disappear.
Two weeks ago, Microsoft's AI director, Mustafa Suleyman, warned that most computer jobs could be automated within 12–18 months.
While OpenAI director Sam Altman said that many professions will simply "disappear" and that the world "is not prepared."
On the other hand, Donald Trump's "AI czar," David Sacks, emphasizes that so far massive job losses from AI have not materialized. On the contrary, he says that the construction of data centers has created a "gold rush" for construction workers, with wages increasing by up to 30%.
Sacks argues that fear is being used as a political tactic: if the population is afraid, it will demand more intervention from the government.
The book also argues that AI architects have long promoted the idea of a universal basic income as a solution to potential job losses. This ties into the so-called Effective Altruism community, a powerful philanthropic network that supports projects in global health, AI safety, and pandemic preparedness.
The organization Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving) has distributed over $4 billion in grants since 2014. Major donors include Sam Bankman-Fried and Dustin Moskowitz.
According to Sacks, the job loss warnings are part of an "influence operation" to push towards a system of "global AI governance," aimed at the broad regulation of the technology in the name of security.
In this context, the 2026 elections may be influenced by several key factors:
First, the financial battle between pro-innovation and pro-regulation groups, including Leading the Future and Public First.
Secondly, the phenomenon of "AI-washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs.
Third, concerns about rising energy and water costs from data centers.
Fourth, rapid technological developments such as autonomous AI and recursive self-improvement.
AI expert Peter Diamandis warns that if these developments accelerate, current regulatory models could become obsolete very quickly.
The question remains whether the fear of job losses will be successfully used for electoral gains and whether political movements will be prepared for the new complexity brought by the age of artificial intelligence, they wrote. Breitbart.
