Fox News host Laura Ingraham used her Tuesday night monologue to cast doubt on the wave of concern over artificial intelligence, likening the current alarm to what she described as earlier episodes of liberal fear-mongering over climate change and nuclear war, according to Breitbart News.
Speaking on “The Ingraham Angle,” Ingraham argued that the political push around AI safety is less about genuine technological risk than about electoral advantage. “In the middle of the midterm campaign, the Left’s agenda here, it’s obvious,” she said, per Breitbart’s account of the segment.
Drawing a line from Gore to AI
Ingraham opened her historical comparison with former Vice President Al Gore’s climate advocacy, recalling the predictions attached to his Academy Award-winning documentary. “Mount Kilimanjaro would lose its snow caps,” she said. “The Arctic would disappear. Would all either drown or be burned up in a climate change-created fireball.”
She noted that the film won an Oscar for best documentary โ a recognition she dismissed as misplaced. “It was really a mockumentary,” Ingraham said, adding that Gore “won the Nobel Prize even for his work in climate awareness, environmental justice.”
From there, Ingraham framed the pattern as a recurring one on the left. “Of course, liberals will always reward fear-mongering by their own,” she said. “It’s a power trip; they ride it to force political change and then punish you.”
Cold War parallels and ‘The Day After’
The host then turned to the nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s, tying it to opposition to President Ronald Reagan’s military buildup. According to Breitbart, Ingraham described participants in those protests as “the No Nukes nut bags who were infuriated about Ronald Reagan and his military buildup.”
She singled out the 1983 ABC television film “The Day After,” which depicted the aftermath of a nuclear exchange, as the era’s most hyped made-for-TV event. In her telling, the movie “gave school kids nightmares about nuclear Armageddon.”
The protests, she said, stretched from coast to coast. “From San Francisco to New York, they showed strength in numbers, also with their No Nukes marches,” Ingraham said. “This was their religion then, and it’s their religion now. And so it’s all fear-mongering all the time.”
That framing served as the bridge to her central target Tuesday night. “Then you fast forward to today, the new horror film involves the potential of runaway AI,” she said, describing the coalition raising alarms as “a grab bag of liberals, tech bros, and even some conservatives.”
A widening debate over AI risk
Ingraham’s remarks land amid an intensifying national argument over how aggressively Washington should regulate advanced AI systems. The debate has cut across traditional ideological lines in recent years, with some technology executives, civil society groups and lawmakers from both parties warning about risks ranging from mass disinformation to economic disruption and, in more extreme scenarios, loss of human control over powerful systems.
That cross-partisan character is precisely what Ingraham highlighted, grouping the various voices together as a single “grab bag” of interests. Her monologue did not name specific AI companies, researchers or proposals, and instead focused on the broader political dynamics of the moment.
The segment reflects a broader skepticism within parts of the conservative media ecosystem toward AI safety advocacy, which critics sometimes portray as a vehicle for regulatory expansion or as a distraction from other priorities. Ingraham’s comparison to earlier environmental and arms-control campaigns places the AI debate within a lineage of causes she argues have been used to justify political change.
Whether the comparison lands will depend in part on how the AI conversation continues to unfold on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. For now, Ingraham’s message was unambiguous: in her view, the newest technological scare is being packaged and sold in a familiar political wrapper.
Breitbart News published the clip and transcript excerpts from the Tuesday broadcast.
Source: www.breitbart.com โ https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/09/16/fncs-ingraham-runaway-ai-akin-to-climate-change-nuclear-armageddon-hysteria/