Silicon Valley Congressman: I Know These AI CEOs, And I Know What They Want To Do
We took Ro Khanna to Pennsylvania to talk to workers about AI, and how it could kill their jobs.
The Silicon Valley lawmaker’s district is getting rich off AI.
We sat him down with workers who share the fear of millions of Americans — that AI could take everything.
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Videographers – Derek Knowles, Marcus Rivera, Thien Dinh, Ian McKenna, Mike Wynn
Audio Technician – Prudence Katze
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@Xsfade1
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Please stop this shit. Ai is a tool. The people at the top are who you hate. Also do khana is worth 200 million dollars 😂😂😂😂 gtfoh he’s a an elite too
@My-Gut-Felt-Truth
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
It's not just the big Tech any more folks, the big boys are driving the bus now. Just follow the money if you can navigate the LLC quagmire
@djdynieldaniel1395
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Termination centers.
@CometoJesus_2026
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Fight all you want! God,Jesus Christ, showed John the future. The future shows lands of data centers
@Metrosoda
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
These tech billionaires read dystopian novels and go "yeah but if I had that technology I would be different!".
They're delusional. They KNOW they're eliminating jobs, and refuse to solve the issue of what the hell we're supposed to do to survive. They KNOW they're ruining our land, but they don't care because it's not their backyards.
@mitchelmarvin8040
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Silicon valley looks like a joke conpared to China 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@AJ3000_
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I’m sorry but he cannot be trusted
@AoSWill
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Middle aged isn't 50s. It's 35
@WSlife99
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Hey, why did your "journalist" take a Waymo rather than call a cab? You're ok with robot cars taking jobs from Americans?
@Gryphonisle
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
They laugh about eliminating jobs, what about the people? What then?
Silicon Valley is the home of high tech (probably now outside of China) but you don’t have to study an image of the place to see that it’s as backward as any place else.
It’s car centric. Sprawl. Single family homes. Sure there’s Waymo but the transit sucks. The region specializes in banality
And what you can’t see is the most important country clubs and best schools are no exemption tech free spaces.
@mahkhardy8588
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
The future, if we do not resist; high tech low lives. Own nothing. Know nothing. Brain in a jar, mouth sewed shut. Social credit scoring. Trapped in a digital prison.
@geezygee
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
AI wouldn't give us the cure for cancer. Every model wants to eliminate any human that stands in its way, and once it cured it, it wouldn't have a reason to exist anymore.
Since it learns off humans and is programmed by humans, and humans have already done this in history many timesover, it too will do this.
We should have elected Andrew Yang when we had the chance
@lillie003
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Unions for the tech industries please. Cooperative investments please.
@CometoJesus_2026
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Dumb Atheists say the Bible has no credibility but yet the Bible prophesied this will happen centuries ago before electricity was even discovered
@Starfish2145
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
So sick of these sociopaths
@lannawolf1864
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
As a trucker, I chose this because it's what I can do. I'm not a hard labor person or good with paperwork or people. I don't know what I would do if I lost this.
@CometoJesus_2026
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name" Revelation 13:16-17
@mattdp3889
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
I would probably vote for Ro. I'll be honest, I don't think he goes nearly far enough on many issues but fine. I'll take him over Tangerine tits
@bobbyflores220
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
ALL of these "AI" companies, and the paid for politicians are being deceitful. They are lying about these TEMPORARY blue collar jobs, just like they are lying about all the water they are stealing via the AI data centers. FYI- Cooling systems are closed systems, why the hell are they sucking up all of our water????
@tech-bore8839
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad if they'd build in long abandoned that are already zoned for industrial use, instead of stealing rural and residential property. Now people are losing their properties, AND we're still stuck with decaying eyesores from previous industries.
@23kyd49
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Nailed it.
@krishgrover538
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
so glad they called him out on 200 million net worth. def insider trading on ai stocks lol
@henson2k
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Hello, I'm Scam Alternative Man and I'm AIcoholic. Hi Scam, go away please
@CometoJesus_2026
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
The Bible was not lying you duck brains! the Antichrist's ' mark of the beast' system 666 is coming… you will take the Mark or you will have your head cut off! the Bible says you won't be able to hide.
@WSlife99
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Elon Musk is a such a sleazy liar
@deenarobyn
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
What moratorium is going to defeat the quality of life for the natural environment and the human residents? NONE … AI will be useless if there’s no one to train it (aka use it) if crops have no birds, bees, bugs to pollinate them. Even billionaires have to eat. Maybe now is a good time for them to move to mars. See how they enjoy living in a naturally hostile environment.
@FancyPantsStudios
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
7:06 50 is not middle age. You’re 5 years from the early bird discount. 😂
@caeliachapin5317
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
"The mistake we made in globalization" wasn't a mistake. It's portrayed that way by politicians pretending they want to fix the problem. But the system is working as designed.
@genevra3754
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Unions got weaker in large part because companies realized their best way of destroying the union, was to bribe it's leaders. It worked. Union members lost faith. They lost hope. And, make no mistake, they knew their union leaders were corrupt and that they were being tossed under the bus. I was just a kid and I'm old now, but I still remember names of the corrupt union leaders at my dad's work. It was a beautiful, small town. A shell of itself now. And, many of the spawn sired by those corrupt leaders are still living there, now scamming the government for assistance. I'm not being spiteful. They really are.
@CometoJesus_2026
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Atheist's problems not a Christian problem. Christians are not worried 😂😂😂
@cassinova22
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
yes we are sitting ducks.
@CppObjectOrientedProgrammer
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
"hurry up and give us all your resources and money so we can remove your job" yeaaaaaaaaaa I'll pass bud……. Musky saying "There'll be a lot of trauma along the way" how about you step down, and you get to be the experiment receiving the trauma, instead of the innocent people? I don't think your words convey enough integrity or seriousness Musky. You're welcome to say the same. We could do this in a reasonable manner, instead of destroying everything Musky; instead of the – oh we got it all figured out, to then realizing the software/reasoning isn't even CLOSE to ready; your typical game-plan btw if you didn't notice.
@Anim3Gamer
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Did you guys know, there was a Presidential Candidate in 2019 that PREDICTED EVERYTHING talked about here? He's even in this video, multiple times! Most notably though, he is the one driving this video's point home at 17:01. His name is Andrew Yang – he, more then Joe Biden (who of course beat him soundly to become President in 2020), was more equipped to deal with the issues with have today. I honestly believe if we had voted him in instead of Biden and Trump – we wouldn't be facing the issues we are now with reliance on AI and Oil, and especially vs China. There wouldn't be such craziness over AI Datacenters which would've been more responsibly built out, even if it slowed us down. And even though there still would be Job Loss (that part is inevitable), people would've at least been backstopped with tax money from the very things that took their Jobs away. Would there still be some issues – of course, no one is perfect. But lets just look at the past 10 years since the start of Trump's 1st term – it's pretty evident that the Partisan Politics that made Trump President is also wrecking America as we speak.
And sadly, I'm now in the belief that it's already too late. The reputation of the United States of America is in tatters across the world. Our Military is weakening by the day. Our enemies get bolder by the day. And our Politicians want to just stick their head in the mud and pretend none of these things are happening on their watch and hope Trump can handle it all – when in fact he's already driven us off the cliff and we are all just waiting to hit the bottom. There isn't anyone on the Left to save us now – those on the Right don't even care. They care more about "Owning the Libs" then anything else – congratulations, you Owned the Libs. You also just probably Owned yourself into oblivion. And there is nothing any of us can do about it at this point, just as much as we've probably past the Point of No Return on Global Warming.
We've only just went off the cliff. We haven't started feeling the fall yet. And we most certainly have not hit the bottom yet.
@Chaosthry7
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
If the info in the Nerd Reich is correct…. they don't care that they are ruining the economy, environment, or anyone's lives, or losing insane amounts of money… they are building a digital prison for us, and a digital garden of eden for them (the tech oligarchy). This is biblically scary.
@HLB512
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
First they ship most jobs overseas now they want to completely eliminate paying any employees.
These billionaires are just without any moral compass
@alanrosenthal3978
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
luv you guys…
@CppObjectOrientedProgrammer
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
"1/3 of the nations wealth is sitting in a 50 mile radius around where we are" that's insane. But, when we think about how fiat/the-dollar is essentially made up, and, we are using dollars to attribute wealth, it's just an illusion lol. The real wealth/value is in the people. If it weren't' for the people, there would be no customers (or, tax dollars more likely in this case), and that 50 mile radius would be, relatively, worthless – even if it was a lot of dollars still. Very strange that 1/3 of the nations wealth could be considered in such a small area.
@DonJulioitsthegoodstuff
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
What worries me more, is tech billionaires with robots as bodyguards, and corrupt goverment replacing human police and military with robots… thats a very scary vision.
@madminkproductions
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
😳Thanks, I h8 it.
But… I would vote for Ro. JS
@PineapplePowersuit
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Ro Khanna is untrustworthy. He's done nothing to help any of us. He postures and drafts bills that look good and have no teeth. The very definition of a Paper Tiger. IDK why this channel is wasting time on him. Interview his rivals. Let's see who we can support in his district that may actually do something that may actually have a positive impact for the people.
@alanpreston1822
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
The easiest job for an AI to replace….a CEO, especially one that is hired for strategic innovation. Think of the money that could be saved.
@AnnetteJeanneDesign
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
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What kind of people work behind More Perfect Union? DO YOU WANT MY HELP OR NOT?
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@inf-jayne
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
oh how they changed their tune, trying to sell us utopian ideas, after realizing the common folk weren't playin' 😂
@WSlife99
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
This guy is not to be trusted. He is one of the most prolific insider traders in congress
@glenrisdon4132
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Run Ro run
@matthewsommerville88
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
“LeARn tO cOdE”
@Krazie-Ivan
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
tax wealth, not work
(comment for the algo)
@PositiveRoots-i4x
September 4, 2026 at 8:24 pm
Khanna hypocrite