Jasmine Sun

Remember, these are private companies.

And so most people have no way of sharing in the wealth of this thing.

And so it's very easy to blame the AI billionaires because they're like kind of culturally weird.

They're really far away from you.

They're not sharing their wealth in any way.

And they are kind of like transforming the whole of economy and society.

And so I think that they're also a politically convenient target and one that I expect is going to get more ire and more hatred over the next couple of years as the presidential primary really kicks into effect.

Like one crypto contrast I think is really interesting, for example, is

the super PACs that the industry has created, right?

And so during the crypto era, Chris Lehane, who now works for OpenAI, was one of the critical people shaping the Fairshake PAC, which lobbied for pro-crypto legislation.

And he was really effective with a lot of that.

They went after candidates who really wanted to crack down on crypto.

This scared off more candidates from doing the same.

And for the most part, a lot of potentially onerous crypto legislation was avoided.

And Fairshake mostly flew under the radar for normal people.

Whereas on the other hand, the same playbook was tried for AI is being tried with leading the future pack, also shaped by Chris Lehane, as well as some other AI venture capitalists and executives.

They went after Alex Boros in New York for, you know, pushing New York state AI regulation.

And actually the opposite thing happened where Alex Boros was ranking like number three in the polls.

He was kind of an irrelevant guy who was going to lose.

The AI billionaires go after him, start running attack ads.