Jasmine Sun
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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A lot of folks who I know in San Francisco in the AI research community, they're really excited about UBI and they're really excited about this sort of infinite leisure point of view.
When you test UBI with the public, it's extremely unpopular because most Americans really want to work.
They really want to have a job.
Maybe they don't want the job to be 40 hours a week.
Maybe they don't want the job to be this or that.
But like fundamentally, people really want to work.
Or when you ask people, do you want to live forever?
I think it like is actually quite a controversial poll.
Like a lot of people don't want to live forever.
And so when there's a very, the utopia that sort of Silicon Valley and the AI industry is outlining is not actually a very compelling utopia to a lot of the other people in society.
And they don't realize that because they are in these very insular communities.
then like even your attempts at positive storytelling don't really land.
The other thing that I think about sometimes is that, especially as the companies are going to go public soon, like for the first, you know, five years of these AI labs existence, all the messaging is really focused on recruiting and investors, right?
Like you want to get the best technical talent to join your lab and you want investors to like give you a lot of money and take you really seriously.
And so you're actually marketing to the end group, right?
Like even somebody who may not actually say care very much about AI safety,
an executive might pretend to like really care a lot about AI safety because they know that a lot of the researchers do and they're not going to get the best researchers if they don't pretend to care about safety.
Like we saw this with, you know, the acquisition of DeepMind into Google, like Google made a bunch of promises about an ethics board and AI use in the military.
I think arguably a lot of Sam Ullman's communications about safety have this flavor where he knows a lot of the people who are very important to him care about it.
And so he's happy to say the words.
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