Jasmine Sun
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827 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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They're not denying that AI might have any possible utility at all, but they clearly didn't see it as essential in the way that cars, energy, and housing are essential.
They clearly saw it as kind of like a
widget, a toy.
And maybe there are these risks, maybe there's the job stuff.
But fundamentally, they were like, this thing is not that useful.
I don't really see in my personal life how this could justify these gigantic valuations.
And so I was talking to, for example, Charles Franklin, who runs Marquette Law Polls in Wisconsin.
And he was explaining that usually you see 50-50 polling on issues where you have a strong anti-case and a strong pro-case.
And the only reason you're kind of seeing this 70-30 bipartisan opposition to data centers, no matter whether you live near a data center or you don't, which means it's not just nimbyism, it's you don't want a data center in anyone's backyard, is because he was like, there is no strong pro-argument for it.
There is not even a fight that's really going on.
Nobody wants it was a phrase I heard over and over.
The phrase that you hear a lot from AI critics is, why is this being shoved down our throats?
Or with, you know, ChatGPT, it's not that people are saying there is literally no use for ChatGPT.
It's people are saying, why are you forcing me at my job to use AI to do something worse when I could do it better?
And so I think that a lot of the public backlash to AI that has risen over the past six months is not explained by people thinking that the technology has no use at all.
It's not explained by them being worried about specific technical properties of LLMs that might lead to rogue AI or misalignment or whatever, which are the sort of safest arguments.
It's AI as sort of an avatar for
a small group of Silicon Valley billionaires' ability to impose their vision of the world onto everybody else without their consent.
And I think that's also what I hear echoed in these data center debates.
It's not just it's going to use this much water or that much water.
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