Appearing on The Bottom Line on Fox Business, Liz Peek took aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders for his opposition to American AI development, warning that his messaging hands a strategic advantage to China. Sanders has championed a study projecting that AI could eliminate 100 million jobs over the next decade — but Peek argued he is exploiting that fear to advance his socialist agenda rather than protect American workers.
“The risk I see is that Bernie, who has a big following among young people, is going to use this concern to further his socialist agenda,” Peek said. She called it a “betrayal of the spirit of America” for Sanders to effectively give the Chinese Communist Party a seat at the table in negotiations over U.S. technological infrastructure. She also highlighted a sharp irony: Sanders’ professed worry about AI job losses is being used to block the very data center construction and infrastructure buildout that is actively creating jobs right now.
Peek and her fellow panelist also weighed in on California’s high-speed rail disaster after a state Senate meeting revealed a jaw-dropping new price tag of $231 billion — 400 percent over the project’s original budget, with no track expected to be operational until 2040. “It makes my brain bleed,” Peek said flatly, calling the project the “poster child for all the environmental craziness leading everything in California to cost four times more than it should.”
She sees the rail debacle as a defining issue for California’s coming governor’s race, noting that the state’s jungle primary format creates a real opening for a Republican to win — possibly even setting up a two-Republican general election runoff. Whether the issue is housing costs, the rail boondoggle, or broader regulatory dysfunction, Peek argued California’s failures offer a compelling roadmap for reform candidates.
