Jasmine Sun
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first heard Jul 2026
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If you are a white collar worker in most industries, you are not part of any sort of organization that is any sort of union or whatever.
And so when your boss decides to maybe introduce AI, consider eliminating your job, there's not actually anything that you can do about it.
There's not like a particular democratic or collective channel to
express how you want ai to be incorporated into your life or your workplace and i think that means that when people are really pissed off they start going for social media cancellation and stochastic violence and all these more diffuse forms of political backlash i think i just have a view that like people public sentiment will find an outlet and uh
Right now, we're just going to see quite a lot of it from very different directions, at least until people feel sort of credibly reassured that they will have the downsides capped, that they will share in the growth that AI gives, etc.
It seems to me that, like, the safety community is somewhat divided on this question.
Right.
with some of these AI populists because they have existing networks, they have existing relationships with policymakers, they have bases who they can activate around the issue of AI, where a lot of people were probably never going to quite grok like a lot of frontier safety issues, but maybe they could be sort of brought on board through some of these other issues like kid safety or the environment that they otherwise cared about.
And so there are clearly some folks who think it's a good idea to forge these alliances.
I'm also, however, like, I think what you're saying is very compelling.
Like, I do think that by making AI a much more mainstream political conversation, and because AI is such a broad-reaching technology with all these different axes of potential policymaking, it's a real question as to whether...
the people who are now the most activated around the AI backlash are focused on the set of issues that the experts would prefer, like you said.
I think that the fact that the AI water use issue is still as salient in conversations as it is, that is something that's an extremely wide
spread belief among, say, college students is pretty crazy because I think it would be a total misallocation of legislative energy for us to focus on legislating data center water use, right?
Right.
And it is true that I think a lot of folks are going to be distracted in an ecosystem where there's limited political capital and limited attention by sort of marginal issues if one believed that some of these frontier safety risks are actually the ones that need to be worked on most
I will say that it's possible that the politics of the issue and the broad politics of the issue can coexist with more precise and technocratic policymaking at the legislative level, especially now that mythos and the Pentagon fiasco have sort of gotten a lot of the policy and expert community much more worried about the existential risk side of things.
Yeah, I had a conversation about this recently at a roundtable with some of the AI executives.
And it seems to me that
We are past the point where marketing and nice ads and AI for good stuff can get the public back on board.
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