Derek Thompson

That's why we need to find some way to control access to this technology and trust, hopefully, that American institutions and American values of private property and privacy and, you know, rule of law, Fourth Amendment kind of stuff, that this can survive contact with artificial intelligence.

Why isn't

convinced me that this point of view is not perfectly in keeping with the Biden administration's now somewhat rejected philosophies of this tech.

Yeah.

Let me reflect back to you why I think, um,

the Dean Ball thesis that America's democracy governing norms might not survive contact with this technology as we know it.

I see two trains coming down the track.

Train number one is the rise of executive power.

It's not just the Trump administration, although it is certainly the Trump administration.

You've seen over the last few cycles that as presidents have recognized that Congress is basically a do-nothing body, the president has concentrated more power in the executive office through the issuing of executive orders, or in Trump's case, just, you know,

starting a de facto war without asking Congress for permission and Congress essentially saying, we don't even want to force Trump to ask for permission.

I think you saw the same thing with tariffs.

Typically, an Article I job for Congress, in this case, something that the executive office can do through AIPA and now some other rule after the Supreme Court ruling.

In any case, you have train one, rise of executive power.

And here comes train two.

And train two, I like the way you put it.

Train two is that

Various ways of subverting the privacy and private property rights of Americans that used to be labor-intensive and expensive are going to become dirt cheap.

And that combination seems a little scary to me, that you have power that is not deliberative, that exists outside the legislative body, combined with these new abilities that

to surveil Americans or to dispatch an extraordinary technology without asking Congress permission.