Aiden Hamilton
RepublicanQ1 America has a growing artificial intelligence (AI) industry, supporting cutting edge innovation and reshaping businesses, but raising concerns about education, ownership, and security. Application of AI technology has increased the demand placed on data centers, controversial for their resource use (such as water and land) and raising utility costs. What are your policy positions in regards to data centers and AI? What sources of evidence informed these policies?
I have not seen the benefit to AI date centers for the American public so i would be opposed to them as it stands.
Q2 What are your top funding priorities for environmental projects and research in our state? If you do not have specific priorities, how would you approach setting those priorities to ensure effective environmental stewardship?
I want to make sure that the national parks in Washington state and on the Olympic Peninsula are protected. Right now our parks are in danger by wildfires that are caused from a lack of care of our natural resources. I would fight so that we maintain our natural resources instead of leaving them to be burned up by wildfires.
Q3 What are your opinions on the current state of science literacy, and how could K-12 education standards be adapted to improve the public understanding of and relationship building in science?
As it stands Washington students are still reeling form the pandemic. Two years of learning loss effects everyone and politicians want to forget it ever happened. I would fight to get our students back to pre covid academic results and better.
Q4 The Bear Gulch Fire, one of 2000 recorded fires in 2025, was the biggest on the Olympic Peninsula in 70 years, burning over 20,000 hectares and causing $42 million in damages. What are your policies around fire risk management for the state?
When it comes to fire and risk management it is no secret that when we leave our forests and do not take care of them we leave them to burn up. If we took care of our forests and cleaned them, taking out dead trees and other dead plants we would leave behind less fuel for a wildfire.
Q5 Puget Sound and the Washington coast are experiencing rapid changes, such as warming waters, ocean acidification, and ecosystem shifts, that have major impacts on Washington’s wildlife and fisheries. What policies and funding, if any, would you prioritize for fisheries management, scientific monitoring, and to help communities adapt to these shifts?
This has been a question that has not come up to me or any of my opponents in any of our public forums. Because of that I cant say I’m as familiar with the issue as others. I would work with our state leaders as well as Trible leaders because both of them are familiar with the challenges and would be able to inform me so I could help craft a legislative framework that can help create a path forward.