Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Yeah, totally.
I've been spending some time in D.C.
this year to talk to some of these AI populists, some from the social conservative right, others from, say, the labor left.
And this Bannon guy I was talking to told me he's like, you know, like, I wouldn't send my kids over to a play date at the polycule, but I can do coalitions.
And so I think it's been one of the most interesting political stories going on right now as a sort of strange bedfellows that have emerged.
I mean, even with the data center stuff, I was talking to an activist and they were saying these were liberal women who had gotten into politics after the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
They said that data centers were the first thing that got them to talk productively with their Trump voting neighbors about politics.
The first thing in like 10 years, almost, which is fascinating to me.
And in this sense, they felt a really strong sense almost of power.
political agency that almost came out of this fight.
So yeah, I think one of the big questions that folks in AI safety, for example, are thinking about is, do we want to build these alliances with the rising left and right populist waves in American culture in order to slow AI down?
Maybe it's okay that we have different reasons and different theories for why AI is so dangerous.
For one person, it's big model bad.
For another person, it's big billionaires bad, big tech bad.
And those folks are sort of linking arms in a lot of ways against the AI accelerationists and sort of the folks pushing the race faster.
One, like this is not actually the way that you would successfully slow down AI if that's what you really wanted.
One, if one locality or one state imposes a moratorium, AI companies are very, very happy to go to other states or other countries.
They're already flooding into Texas, for example, because it's had such a pro data center environment.
People are looking at Louisiana, the Dakotas, Australia.
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