New York Governor Kathy Hochul sounds like many politicians on A.I. these days—impressed, maybe a little worried, and trying to be practical about the unstoppable technological freight train headed our way. When I called her late last week, she waxed poetic about ensuring A.I. is “compatible with the public good” before ticking off the various trade-offs she’s now trying to navigate: bringing high-paying tech jobs to the state without driving white-collar work to extinction, solving society’s “most-pressing problems” without jacking up constituents’ electric bills, etcetera. In short, she wants the best of all possible worlds. “I do not want to be alarmist,” she told me. “I see the upside, I see the downside.”