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For all the attention AI gets, data shows that the parties are still not adopting it as a major issue. I've been playing with @derekwillis 's awesome data on party fundraising emails. As my plot here shows, AI is just starting to tick up as a Democratic talking point, but it's still very, very modest. The Republicans' 2020-era freakout about social media remains much, much larger than the current AI freakout in terms of email focus...and that never amounted to much in terms of policy. At the same time, policy proposals around AI are getting bolder, like Sanders and Trump floating national ownership---yet surprisingly, the party rank and file are actually moving pretty slowly to adopt AI as an issue, maybe because it's not very salient with the American public. Will be very curious how this changes in the coming months. Seems likely Democrats may start messaging around it more...but maybe not, if we don't start to see meaningful employment effects.