Democrats say supreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot restrictions will ensure'safe, secure and accurate elections' - US politics live Comments come after court on Monday rejected the president's mail ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections Supreme court rejects Trump's mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections Tue 15 Sep 2026 06.20 EDTFirst published on Tue 15 Sep 2026 06.02 EDT Supreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot restrictions will ensure'safe, secure and accurate elections' Tue 15 Sep 2026 06.20 EDTFirst published on Tue 15 Sep 2026 06.02 EDT Supreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot restrictions will ensure'safe, secure and accurate elections' Donald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world's most powerful AI companies. Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders sounded the alarm over the rapid advancement of the technology and its potential threat to humanity. Trump dismissed the anxieties on Monday, describing them as a "HOAX" and "conspiracy" and insisting on social media: "The only control or'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" But the 80-year-old president, who has sidelined Congress on numerous issues during his second term, looks increasingly isolated as members of both major parties acknowledged the risks and expressed a desire to act before it was too late. Don Beyer, a Democratic congressman from Virginia, said: "History will look very poorly on that tweet. He's being really foolish: not the first time he's been really foolish but perhaps catastrophically foolish in this case."

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI Technology leaders don't seem to understand society's gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it. Silicon Valley is trying to make sense of the growing backlash against artificial intelligence, but so far, it's not going that well. The inconvenient truth is that a significant portion of the world is not optimistic about the technology they're building. But recent attempts to diagnose the root of the problem by CEOs like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic's Dario Amodei indicate they don't understand what's actually driving society's disdain for AI. The rest of popular culture, meanwhile, is finding ways to capitalize on AI hate. Just look at this new commercial for Liquid Death and Garage Beer.

Meanwhile, we already have examples of companies so eager to cut corners that they're automating tasks the AI can't handle -- like the tech site CNET autogenerating error-ridden financial articles. And when AI goes awry, the effects are likely to be felt disproportionately by the already marginalized. For all the excitement around ChatGPT and its ilk, the makers of today's large language models haven't solved the problem of biased data sets that have already embedded racist assumptions into AI applications such as face recognition and criminal risk-assessment algorithms. Last week brought another example of a Black man being wrongly jailed because of a faulty facial recognition match.