From Politico: Gov. Ron DeSantis has fought Big Tech before. But his latest battle against artificial intelligence puts him at odds with a rapidly growing industry — and the leader of his party.
As President Donald Trump and top Republicans in Washington push hard to give companies wide latitude, DeSantis has emerged as a leading AI skeptic. He wants to spend his last year as Florida governor beating back the advancement of artificial intelligence, even as it creeps into more facets of everyday life.
“Let’s not try to act like some type of fake videos or fake songs are going to deliver us to some kind of utopia,” the governor said Dec. 18 during an event in Sebring.
Unlike many of DeSantis’ high-profile fights, his opposition to AI has little to do with cultural grievances or “woke” ideology — and far more to do with economic disruption, labor displacement and the scale of the technology itself.
During an AI event in Jupiter, Florida on December 15, DeSantis said, “The idea of this transhumanist strain, that somehow this is going to supplant humans and this other stuff, we have to reject that with every fiber of our being.”
“We as individual human beings are the ones that were endowed by God with certain inalienable rights. That’s what our country was founded upon — they did not endow machines or these computers for this,” the governor added.
“As AI develops and becomes part of our everyday lives, we are committed to putting the necessary safeguards in place to protect Florida families and defend the rights of every Floridian,” DeSantis said in a post on Dec. 15.
As AI develops and becomes part of our everyday lives, we are committed to putting the necessary safeguards in place to protect Florida families and defend the rights of every Floridian. pic.twitter.com/riCDWLPNtj
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) December 15, 2025
I’ve been saying this for months. All of these wonderful headlines about “trillions” of investment into America is just infra CAPEX. https://t.co/x6DVfnpBvK
— Stephen Rodriguez (@steverod78) December 16, 2025
‘We have to reject that with every fiber of our being’: DeSantis emerges as a chief AI skeptic https://t.co/KulpMSYyUU
— POLITICO (@politico) December 27, 2025
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