Jasmine Sun

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

But when you have people saying,

saying words in order to recruit more in-group people.

And these words are on the record and they're on Twitter and they're on video.

And then they get shared out to the broad public.

And it's like, oh man, Sam Altman says that most people are probably going to be worse off.

Or like she says that like there might be like an X percentage chance that we all die.

Then they're like, whoa, what the hell are these guys doing?

Like we're not into that.

And so I think that the insularity is also reinforced by some of the market incentives of the first five years of their existence.

And so now that the companies are trying to pivot into messaging to the public,

it's a much harder task.

I frankly think that at this point, in order to get the public back on board, you're going to need to start giving people real material benefits.

Or maybe it does look like the long-awaited cancer cure.

I think if people see medical breakthroughs that are actually happening as a result of AI, then they are going to have a much more positive view on things.

health advances and scientific advances as a result of AI are some of the highest pulling things among the public.

And so if it also looks like more investment is shifting towards domains that people are really excited about AI being a part of, and those are visible, those are well-marketed, then I think that that could also really work.

But again, when we talk about scientific and health advances, it can't be these advertisements about plausible future things.

I think we actually have to show that we are able to access

like cheaper or better or whatever it is, whatever cures, treatments, et cetera, as a direct result of the AI companies and their wealth.

um in this case i think that's where like i'm i think the economic redistribution stuff is actually really important like i'm actually not sure that say the health advances alone would do something here because i think the mistrust of the elite is fundamentally based in rising levels of wealth inequality and concerns over affordability and corporate concentration of power in the u.s in the sense that like wages have wage growth hasn't kept up with like corporate growth and labor share of income is declining and all of that kind of stuff and so um

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