Jasmine Sun
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445 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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And so this includes maybe labor groups who are labor union advocates who are worried about the job stuff.
This includes maybe social conservatives who are very concerned about AI replacing sort of human relationships with AI companions and AI relationships.
It might include environmentalists who are worried about data centers' energy use impacts or states' rights advocates who are worried about things like federal preemption.
And so one of the big trends that I've noticed in the U.S.
over the last few months is that AI is no longer sort of the—
remit of these few sort of technocratic, very AI-focused policy wonks who are very concerned with the specific characteristics of AI as a technology.
And rather, you have all these other interest groups that have long histories in Washington lobbying for this and that, who are now realizing, wait a second, AI intersects with my issue, usually in a way that makes us not like AI very much.
And now they're actually banding together and forming these, in some cases, bipartisan or like
cross-issue coalitions to support things like whether a data center moratorium or fighting preemption or things like that.
And that was just like a really interesting trend to see people who, again, probably two years ago had no clue what an LLM was to now be focusing so much of their time and political energy on organizing against AI.
And so some people have asked, like, why do I call these folks the AI populace?
Like, where does that term come from?
And I think it comes from me trying to understand the difference between these political factions that are anti-AI versus, say, the AI safety types of researchers who we talked about earlier.
And the main thing that I realized was that of these new AI populists—
They are not primarily concerned with the technical characteristics of AI that might make it uniquely risky or uniquely dangerous.
Rather, they see AI as an extension of a broader concern that they have that a small number of wealthy and powerful corporate elites are concentrating control in society at the cost of everybody else.
And so when the AI populace are trying to do things like impose data center moratoriums or
regulate AI.
It's often less, again, about the specific nature of the technology and where it's going and much more about a broad backlash, a pre-existing populist backlash against billionaires, against tech companies, against corporate concentrations of power that hurt workers and hurt ordinary Americans.
Frankly, quite a lot.
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