David French

AI position

No x-risk mention

No stable, attributable and sufficiently current personal AI-policy stance was located.

His public AI commentary found in this research focuses on product liability, chatbot sycophancy/harm to minors, and corporate responsibility for AI outputs (e.g. the FSU shooting/OpenAI lawsuit, the "ChatGPT and Claude and Grok and Gemini are not your friends" column) — no evidence of engagement with existential-risk framing.

Sheet category (Jul 12, 2026 snapshot): No clear personal stance

Absence of a located position is not evidence of neutrality or disinterest.

Why influential

Produces reusable arguments and interpretive frames that circulate among policymakers, donors, advocates, academics and other journalists. Primary policy lanes: law; religion; democracy; culture; foreign policy.

Who pays attention

Institutional conservatives, Republican legal and policy staff, religious organizations, national-security professionals and center-right media

Work samplesunvetted

• NYT Opinion column: "ChatGPT and Claude and Grok and Gemini are not your friends... they are human creations, and their creators are responsible for everything the creatures do"

  Apr 30, 2026 · article

  NYT column (accessed via NYT Opinion's own social repost, direct nytimes.com URL not resolvable in search) arguing AI companies bear full moral/legal responsibility for chatbot outputs across ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini.

• Interview Only w/ David French - America's AI Liability Crisis & Constitutional Breaking Points

  May 1, 2026 · podcast

  French discusses the Florida AG/OpenAI case tied to the FSU shooting, arguing ChatGPT would be charged as a co-conspirator if it were human, and critiques chatbot sycophancy and AI companies' inconsistent liability claims.

• Advisory Opinions podcast (recent episode)

  Jul 1, 2026 · podcast

  Twice-weekly legal/constitutional podcast co-hosted with Sarah Isgur; primary recurring platform, mostly non-AI legal/political topics.