Kmele Foster

AI position

No x-risk mention

Public comments found focus on AI policy/regulation, labor displacement skepticism, and data-center politics; no on-record statement addresses existential or catastrophic AI risk.

Why influential

Builds a direct, recurring relationship with audiences through long-form or personality-led media; guests and clips can quickly alter candidate incentives and issue salience. Primary policy lanes: race; civil liberties; media; culture.

Who pays attention

Civil-liberties advocates, independent voters, policy skeptics, journalists and cross-partisan professionals

Work samples

• Panel discussion to address politics of AI, data centers (Historic Star Theater, Berkeley Springs, WV)

  Jun 1, 2026 · podcast

  Live 'Suspensions of the Rules!' taping moderated by Tangle's Isaac Saul; Foster discusses his own LLM/NotebookLM use, AI hallucination limits, and opposition to AI data-center subsidies.

• The Fifth Column (A Podcast) — Substack/show page

  Jan 1, 2026 · podcast

  Weekly news-commentary podcast Foster co-hosts with Matt Welch and Michael Moynihan; general politics/media/culture focus.

• Let's have an authentic racial reckoning.

  Jun 27, 2025 · article

  Foster's first written piece as Tangle editor-at-large, on the 2020 racial-reckoning movement.

• We just hired Kmele Foster to the Tangle team.

  May 1, 2025 · newsletter

  Announcement of Foster joining Tangle as editor-at-large.

• FAI Welcomes Kmele Foster, Michael Kratsios, and Tamara Winter to Board

  Jan 1, 2024 · article

  Foster joins the Foundation for American Innovation board alongside AI-policy figure Michael Kratsios (OSTP Director).

AI-world contacts

• Michael Kratsios — AI policy figure, former Scale AI managing director, co-author of the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, White House OSTP (Director); Foundation for American Innovation

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Joined the Foundation for American Innovation board in the same announcement as Kmele Foster, giving them a shared institutional affiliation, though no direct on-record interaction between the two was found.