Jasmine Sun

And we're already starting to see some of the likely candidates picking this up as part of their campaign messaging.

Yeah.

Like, it's very notable to me that, you know, like Ro Khanna and Mark Kelly, both who are expected to put themselves in the running, have been, you know, doing these big AI action plans.

Josh Hawley on the right, for example, has also been especially active in AI legislation on kids' safety, on jobs.

I've heard from other folks who haven't necessarily

introduced plans yet, but who are expected to do so.

And I think, again, it's because you always need a galvanizing new thing that's going on in order for these politicians to justify why they are the unique ones to sort of meet the moment with their plans.

And AI can also be interestingly kind of

distorted to fit any of these plans.

I think another thing is just like it collides with pre-existing sentiment, pre-existing populist sentiments in America, right?

Like we're already seeing rising distrust of institutions, rising distrust of elites, distrust of billionaires, corporations.

That's been a growing...

sentiment in the U.S.

growing resentment long before AI.

And with how wealthy these AI billionaires are, with how much revenue the companies are making, Anthropic hitting 30 billion run rate recently with the scale of these data center investments, I think that AI is a very good target for a lot of this anti-billionaire, anti-corporate sentiment.

And so, you know, like I'll

Even when I talk to accelerationists, even when I talk to people who are very pro-AI, or when I talk to AI executives, they understand that they are very unsympathetic, right?

Like most Americans do not relate to Sam Altman.

They do not find him relatable.

They know that they personally are getting no piece of this pie.