Jasmine Sun

So I do think that AI matters, but I also think that a lot of politicians are being pretty opportunistic about, you know, pointing to the shiny new thing and saying, maybe this is a reason to do what I've been saying all along.

Yeah, I mean, I could see why you would think that.

And I do think that looking at, you know, parallels to crypto are definitely interesting.

I think that AI has some pretty distinct differences.

One is it's just a far bigger part of the economy than crypto ever was.

Like crypto was not driving like 30 or 40 percent of GDP growth over the course of a year.

Crypto is not, you know, yes, there's like Bitcoin mining operations, but these are not showing up in neighborhoods as much as data centers are.

most people at their work are not being forced or encouraged to use crypto as part of their jobs, nor is there as high of consumer adoption.

Like even from people's own volitional use of crypto, that was always a niche thing.

It was, crypto is very hard and confusing to use.

And my guess is that most Americans never really got in the habit of using crypto on a regular basis, whereas ChatGPT is like the fastest growing app in human history, right?

And so I think that in terms of the salience of AI to a lot of normal people,

it does feel like a more relevant thing.

There are also other differences.

Like I think the AI leaders have been very different than crypto leaders in their messaging.

The way that you described the Warren dynamic, which is not something I'm personally familiar with.

I didn't follow crypto quite as closely, but it sounds like Elizabeth Warren was forging one narrative and people in the crypto industry and maybe many crypto advocates had another perspective.

In AI, one thing that's really interesting and that has always been really interesting about AI is that the risks that the populists are talking about are many of the same risks that people in the industry are talking about, right?

Like Dario Amadei is the one saying that 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs are going to go away by 2030.

And so that adds a lot of credibility to the message when the people building the technology are saying, actually, that's true.