Jasmine Sun
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first heard Jul 2026
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Most people in the world do not have the opportunity to like get themselves out of the permanent underclass by getting a job at OpenAI.
Sure, you could call it like a normal amount of people like money, but I think the scale of how much talent is flowing into a few specific labs really has to do with the fact that the AI community itself is promoting these widespread beliefs that if you do not have a stake, if you do not have literal equity in frontier AI, you are not going to have economic leverage in the future and you and your kids are going to be screwed.
I've been super interested in these questions.
And part of the reason I wrote that New York Times piece is because, you know, I was doing this little personal project where I was doing almost these long form AI ethnographies where I'd sit down with a random researcher at one of the frontier labs, sometimes in a friend, sometimes an acquaintance or a stranger, and just ask them for an hour about their very broad views about AI, its impact on the world and how optimistic and pessimistic they were.
all off the record.
And one thing that I noticed is one of the questions I ask is, what advice would you give to a normal 17-year-old?
So not like a super crack, like brilliant coder, but just like pick a random state in America, normal 17-year-old, they're getting Bs in school.
They're not like thinking about AI that much.
Like, how do you think that they can prepare for the future?
And what was really shocking to me was almost everyone I spoke to, regardless of their personal political beliefs, some of these are more libertarian types, some of these are more leftist types, some of these don't care about politics at all,
Some of these have a wide range of beliefs about even AI itself.
Most people just told me, honestly, I have no idea what I'd tell that 17-year-old.
It's a really scary time.
I don't think there's going to be a lot of jobs for them left.
I think they're caught in this painful transition.
And on the economic front, it did become clear that there was sort of this quiet consensus that
Regardless of your future beliefs about whether there will be a permanent underclass for more jobs than ever, the vast majority of people I know in the AI industry believe that in the near term, in the next few years, we are going to see mass job displacement.
It's going to be especially hard for a lot of young people, and a lot of current knowledge work jobs are going to be disrupted and displaced completely.
And so then, of course, it kind of goes to the other thing you said, which is, for me personally, I just feel that if I thought that the technology I was building had a very high chance of
displacing millions of jobs and maybe also a 10% chance of killing everybody or something like that, which is also not an uncommon belief from researchers at the labs, I probably wouldn't build it.
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