> There can be foreign agents criticizing AI, but not all people criticizing AI are foreign agents.

Indeed, and it's hard to disentangle exactly how much sentiment is driven by one vs the other.

If we remember back to recent elections and the Russian influence campaigns to boost Trump, the same people were either denying that they happened or denying that they actually influenced anything. Interesting reversal now.

Maybe they shouldn't have dismantled all the task forces and teams meant to study and combat disinformation.