Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Like one of the things that annoys me about this particular approach is it's not that I don't think that AI can contribute to all of these problems.
I think it definitely can.
But what I often hear is a kind of laziness about how it's going to do that.
And it feels like a deus ex machina of it's super smart.
It'll just figure it out.
Yeah, I was trying to think about what the difference was between how I would describe Silicon Valley and San Francisco culture a year ago, let's say early 2025 versus now.
And I think the number one thing is that Silicon Valley has really woken up to politics, you know, in January 2025.
Silicon Valley was feeling very triumphant about Doge, about Elon Musk, about David Sachs and Truman and the White House.
It kind of felt like they were all in control.
And actually, if you just build these genius technologies and you get super rich and you have good ideas, you'll just get the political power to enact your vision.
And a year and a half later, a lot of those folks are out of the White House.
They failed at reducing the national debt and achieving all these other goals that they thought they could just AI their way into solving.
Anthropic, for example, has had a lot of problems in its dealings with the Trump administration, fundamentally very political and very relational problems.
Dario's problem in dealing with the White House was not, I think, that he didn't have good arguments or that he's not very smart or not saying logical things.
I think that anyone from Anthropic will admit that these are largely relational problems.
And so there's a way where I think democracy and politics is a lot more powerful than these very rich and very smart tech people realize.
And there's some optimism to that, I think, in looking at it and saying it's actually really hard to buy an election.
It's actually really hard to buy out the whole White House at once.
But it's an interesting moment, I think, for the tech industry to be realizing how important politics really is and how difficult it is.
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