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As we argued in our first essay on this topic, the Left needs to take both the safety and livelihood risks of AI very seriously. Just as it was a mistake to let climate change be put in an “environmental” box and be treated as a special interest or scientific issue when it will in fact impact everyone’s life, we can’t compartmentalize the changes that AI will wreak into a single-issue “technology” or innovation policy issue. This is a topic for everyone to engage with.