What Kamala Harris has said about AI, tech regulation, and more(techcrunch.com) |
What Kamala Harris has said about AI, tech regulation, and more(techcrunch.com) |
(Ref- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/923369723/lets-talk-about-kam...).
"As district attorney of San Francisco, she declined to pursue the death penalty. But as attorney general of California, she defended the state's use of the death penalty. She essentially said: look, I'm doing my job. It's the largest attorney general's office, second to the U.S. attorney general. And after the Supreme Court ruled that California had basically put way too many people in prison, her office argued that they needed to have these folks in prison because they were essential to prison labor."
Not a fan.
> [Later, Harris told BuzzFeed that she hadn't known that was an argument that her office was taking. — Ed.]
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/adamserwer/some-lawyers...
You can decide whether you find that credible or not but it seems worth noting that the California AG’s office is large enough that nobody can micromanage it. What I’d look at is what she did _after_ becoming aware of it.