Jasmine Sun

He starts running his own ads being like, AI billionaires hate me, shoots up to number one in the polls or like neck and neck, number one, number two.

And he now has a much better chance of winning now that leading the future, this AI super PAC has gone after him.

I've seen in other districts, the same thing happened where when leading the future, the AI super PAC endorses a candidate.

The other person in the race will say, thank God I haven't been endorsed by the AI billionaires.

And so you have enough of this populist sentiment that it's actually a little bit of a political liability to be partnered too close with AI industry.

Yeah, super interesting.

I think...

My argument would be that they are not part of the same movement.

They have different motivations for their attacks.

Like, for example, the attacker of Sam Multman, the guy who threw the Molotov, he had written some blog posts about existential risk in particular and his, you know, Eliezer Yudkowsky style fears about how AI was going to kill us all.

So he definitely had some AI specific fears.

I think the things that feel really similar to me when you look at a lot of the recent assassination attempts or successful assassinations that have happened over the past few years is a lot of them are committed by very online young people who spend a lot of their time in discords and in these very niche online communities.

that often tend to develop more extreme beliefs.

Like Charlie Kirk's murderer did the same thing.

He was also a discord lurker, very young as well.

And I think that it also reflects the fact that political violence in the U.S.

has become more prominent.

And that's something that political science researchers have found too.

both when they look at the incidence of political violence, but also when they poll the public on, do you ever think assassination is justified?

Do you think that violence is justified?