Ari Emanuel Pitches Brother Rahm as Centrist Democratic President and Says He Isn’t Too Worried About AI: “It Doesn’t Have Taste”

Ari Emanuel told an audience in London that his brother, Rahm Emanuel, could appeal as a centrist Democratic presidential candidate. The entertainment executive also argued that human judgement and taste will remain valuable as artificial intelligence develops, while saying he was unsure how AI’s moral limits could be addressed without restricting innovation.

Emanuel said AI could help creative people, but that it lacks taste and relies on human ideas and direction. He recalled the UFC deal as his most difficult negotiation, describing how prospective buyers fell away before his company had to buy the business amid financial turmoil after Brexit. He also called sport common ground in a politically divided society and said he prefers speaking with people on the other side.