Peter Thiel says America's anti-AI backlash is a self-inflicted wound

Peter Thiel told Mathias Döpfner that blaming China for AI backlash was "too easy." Niels Starnick/Niels Starnick/BILD Peter Thiel said he doesn't believe China to be the driving force behind anti-AI sentiment in the US. "This is mainly what we're doing to ourselves," he said. Thiel railed against the Pope, calling him a "useful idiot for the CCP." Americans are souring on AI. Peter Thiel said the US mostly has itself to blame, not China. A growing cohort of tech executives blame China, America's AI adversary, for people turning on the tech. Executives from Garry Tan to Kevin O'Leary have accused data center discourse of being a psyop.