Jasmine Sun

these days be more concerned over like, I don't know, things like protecting labor, protecting the environment, protecting creatives, like a lot of these particular concerns that AI introduces are more aligned with the Democratic voter base.

And I think the Republicans still have

maybe, you know, like I think even in this current political environment, the fact that Trump was mostly an accelerationist and mostly a pro-AI person really prevented a lot of Republican Congress people who wanted to pursue AI regulation from doing so because they knew that Trump was going to, Trump or one of the aligned PACs or something was going to go after them if they tried to introduce two onerous of AI regulation.

And so

My guess is that Democrats would be the more decelerationist party.

But then again, you do have folks like Gavin Newsom, who is the current Democratic frontrunner, who is pretty pro-tech and has aligned with himself with Silicon Valley a lot.

So I'm not sure about that either, just because you do have, you know, people like Gavin Newsom or John Ossoff, who recently did a fundraiser in San Francisco with Chris Lehane, the OpenAI lobbyist, right?

And so like you are, you do see a few Democrats going for the pro AI lane.

I wonder if that's going to work like in a money versus the people battle, like in a world of increasing populism and resentment against tech.

Does having this super PAC behind you, does having Silicon Valley money behind you, is that going to win you the primary against other people who are like, screw the AI billionaires?

I have no idea, but it'll be interesting to watch.

I mean, I think if the Bernie moratorium camp, like, takes over the Democratic Party, like, if right now most Democrats are not backing the moratorium, if they all decided to go that way, I do think the Dems would be the party of the decels, you know?

Like, I think that would signal a big shift for the Democratic Party if they got majority support among Democrats for a moratorium.

I will say that, like, if I were to steal my Anastasia Klein and Derek Thompson, because I think they actually talked about AI populism in their one-year retro on Abundance recently.

I heard that, yeah.

Yeah, and...

I think one argument that you could make if you were them is that the thing that's blocking healthcare provision and housing and all that is not really more intelligence, that it's either a political issue or something to do with manufacturing or stuff in the physical world.

I mean, we've seen Bowman's cost disease where the cost of digital services goes down, but a lot of healthcare is still like surgery or housing requires like building in the real world or the US has lost a lot of manufacturing capacity compared to places like China.

And so one could make an argument that

One is pro-technology in the sense of physical things like drug development and manufacturing, things that deliver these broad-based benefits, even if intelligence we don't max out or something.