Jasmine Sun

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just want to distribute the benefits of growth equally.

Like, I just think that we should care about the distribution, but I generally am pretty pro-technology.

And that really freaks me out to think about this kind of thing.

Like, you know, I wonder how Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, like the abundance folks feel, because they are people who try to make a case to the Democrats that they should embrace technology more, right?

That actually, if we think about the way that things like AI might bring down the cost of pharmaceuticals or unlock scientific discoveries or make work less onerous, like that could be an amazing thing for Democrats and for anyone who cares about like a broad, broad public well-being.

And I was a pretty big fan of abundance.

I'm pretty sympathetic to that argument.

But I don't think that's the way that the current Democratic Party is going to go because they're the ones whose voter base of like, youngish college educated white collar people are the most impacted by AI.

They are very scared.

And we have a lot of distrust of the technology companies right now where people think, yeah, maybe there's going to be a cure for cancer, but I'm not going to get it is kind of the way that people feel like maybe there's going to be, you know, a

therapist, teacher, whatever in your pocket for all those people, but I can't pay the 200 bucks a month to get the best models and I'm going to be left on the other side of that divide.

And so I think with such low levels of social trust right now, trusting companies, trusting the government, trusting each other, I would not be surprised to see a kind of increasing split around these lines of, are you part of this like broad populist group or are you sort of on the side of the techno-capitalist elites or whatever?

Yeah.

I mean, my sense is that in the 2028 election, unless things get really, really crazy with AI, it'll probably still be Republicans versus Democrats.

But between those party lines, I think it is more likely the Democrats will be the decels, which...

As someone who is personally mostly closer to a Democrat than I am to a Republican, and also closer to a pro-technology person than an anti-technology person, I'm like, oh, I really don't like this.

But I, yeah, I think that, again, AI impacts the voter bases of the Democrats more than it does the Republican voter base for the most part.

I think that concern is one of them in terms of just like the job threat.

I think Democrats tend to be