Jasmine Sun

Like this stuff is going to hurt you.

It is going to take your job.

And I'm watching the trend lines.

Like I'm looking at the fact that it is number one for fastest rising issue with number two being war in the Middle East.

So this is as of February, to be clear.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that people, again, AI has sort of become almost this political bogeyman.

I think in some ways it reminds me of the way that China showed up in the discourse over the last decade where everything was because China.

Like we got to, you know, we need to do AI because China.

We need to...

reinvest in manufacturing because China.

We need to educate our kids better because China.

The specter of China competition in China, eating America's lunch on the economy, on geopolitics, on whatever, was sort of used as an all-purpose justification in Washington, D.C.

And I think that sometimes this is fair.

Like, again, I think some of the AI risks are really real.

I think that China competition is a real thing.

But I think it also comes from the sense that when there's a big other force in the world, this big alien force, whether that's

another country like China that's very foreign to people or whether there's this the specter of super intelligence and people don't really understand it but it promises to change everything and it seems very powerful and like there's a lot of money behind it it becomes very easy to sort of blame and tie into a really wide range of issues.

But yeah, I think that this opportunism is probably going to accelerate going into the 2028 primary season.

I mean, it's going to be a crowded primary, most likely on both the Republican and the Democratic sides.