Obama’s remarks mark a larger shift for both himself and the Democratic Party writ large: He governed as a tech-friendly Democrat, who broke POTUS tech barriers by having a laptop and iPad while in office and whose 2011 town hall at Facebook headquarters was widely seen as typifying the administration’s friendliness with Silicon Valley.

Barack Obama weighs in on AI dangers after Trump said he should be the only ‘guardrail’ - ‘I’m not an AI accelerationist who believes it will lead to some techno-utopia,’ former president writes