Are lawmakers following the talk on AI, or is the talk following them?
What people post on social media about AI, and what lawmakers introduce, hold and sign, day by day.
By Reynal Guillen · Published 9 November 2026
Labels built with Claude, an AI model from Anthropic.
Law can grow out of what people say and do. This page puts the two on one timeline. It shows which came first but cannot prove why.
The posts, 1,437 of them, come from ten sources. The government documents are bills, committee notices and reports, floor remarks, executive orders, proclamations and California bills. We have three topical "watches" that sort these data: Congress, the Executive branch and Superintelligence. Posts from before 4 November are the baseline.
Use the toggles below to choose what you see, the timeline to move through the days, and the bottom table to read every item.
Labels come from an AI model and have not yet been checked by a person against human coding.
Counts describe what was collected and make no claim about public opinion. A document's dot marks when it was introduced, held, signed or last acted on, and says nothing about its effect.
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Categories. The category list came out of many rounds of exchange between Reynal Guillen and Claude. Its aim is to read as little into each post as possible, without a theoretical lens. By comparing how each category could be read across posts, we settled on the most reasonable and plausible reading of each one. Claude then applied the final list to every post, and an automatic check confirms that each label's supporting quote appears in the post.
Moves and stance. Claude proposed the list of moves and stances, and Reynal Guillen reviewed it and edited it lightly.
Superintelligence posts. These were labeled with the same list and the same checks, in a later run.
Searches. Eight searches were run across these platforms: Bluesky, X, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, Hacker News, Instagram and Rumble.
- congressional committee ai
- democrats AI commission
- Nvidia export controls
- bernie sanders ai
- data center backlash
- ai regulation
- ai regulation congress
- do democrats support AI
Window. Posts are mostly from 7 October to 6 November 2026. The watch begins on 4 November, and earlier posts serve as the baseline.
Superintelligence posts. These come from the earlier AI and Work collection, not from the eight searches above: the 126 posts that use the word superintelligence or ASI. They run from June 2025 to 27 October 2026, come mostly from TikTok, YouTube and Reddit, and none falls in the watch period, so they cannot show change after 4 November.
Documents. Bills, committee reports and floor remarks come from GovInfo, committee meeting notices from Congress.gov, executive orders and proclamations from the Federal Register, and California bills from the California Legislature's public bill files. A document is included when AI, data centers, chips, semiconductors, export controls or superintelligence make up at least 5 of every 10,000 words, or the topic is named in its title. A committee notice is included when its title, bills or witnesses name the topic. Each document is shown once: a bill on the day it was introduced, a notice on the day of the meeting, a California bill on the day of its last action. Documents are not yet sorted by category or label. Pulled 7 November 2026.
Questions you type here are saved, with the date, to help us improve this tool. Each one is sent to an AI model together with this page's list of questions, categories and platforms. The posts stay on this page.
How to read this page. Gray dots are posts (1437); blue nodes are their category (25 here); orange nodes are their move and stance labels, one flat list of 9 held tentatively; teal nodes are camps (7 of 11 appear), linked only where a post’s own words contain a term the camp owns (140 posts do). Hover or focus a dot for detail; the gestures are listed on the graph. Notes explains how to read it.
Public page: names of accounts that are not on our approved outlet list are withheld and shown as “Account (name withheld)” (this can include small organizations and automated accounts), links to those posts are removed, and @mentions are masked. Search matches whole words in the post’s own title and text and/or its saved top comments (other people’s words), and runs in the page on the embedded text; quotation marks match a phrase. The move and stance grouping is Claude's judgment from the model's free-text move labels (untested); the categories are the model's primary labels on the revised list. Every post has exactly one category (blue-tinted line) and zero to two move or stance labels (orange-tinted lines): 22 posts carry two, a move plus a direction (opposes or supports); 8 carry none because their move label was "off topic". Secondary categories are not drawn. Camp links (teal) use the online graph’s rule with no model: a post links to a camp when its own title or body contains a term that camp owns in the taxonomy (comments are other people’s words and are not read); one term can belong to several camps, and most posts have none. Two posts the model labeled 18 are shown under 2, where category 18 was merged on 2026-11-04. The starting layout is a force layout with a fixed seed, so positions mean closeness through shared labels and nothing else; once you drag, positions also reflect where you put them. The timeline places posts by publish date (the engine’s date, or a yt-dlp or Apify date where one was filled in); posts dated before the earliest pull window or without a valid date are under Older or undated. Counts show what was collected, not how much people posted: the pulls cover different windows, and the day of the order’s renaming was searched on purpose. The Congress and Superintelligence nodes sit below the posts. A post belongs to a watch by its dot color (gold Congress, gray ring Superintelligence); its line to the node is hidden until you click the node, which also lists those posts in the table. Each node has one line, labeled with a count, to the doc node that holds its documents (Congress: federal bills, notices, reports and floor remarks; Executive branch: executive orders and proclamations, which has no posts; California bills are not linked to any of them); clicking the node draws its line to each single document. Government documents (squares in two clusters below the posts, Federal and California) are official texts, not posts: bills, committee notices, committee reports, Congressional Record sections, executive orders, proclamations and California bills with at least 5 topic words (AI, data centers, chips and similar) per 10,000 words, or the topic named in the title. Each has one date (introduced, held, signed or last acted on); the other dates of a bill are in its tooltip. They have no category or label yet. Each cluster holds every document of that jurisdiction in wedges by type, and the Federal and California toggles beside Camps show or hide them and their ticks on the timeline.