Jon Slavet

create a forum to have serious conversations about problem solution in California.

Because of the employment, because of the leases that have been signed in downtown to bring human beings back into the city to actually be a part of the tax base.

I'd say it was death by a thousand cuts to decide to run because it's a fraught time to actually run for something.

So God bless AI and God bless the tech industry.

It's crazy, it's dangerous on multiple levels and difficult.

California has passed AI legislation.

California has been one of the states to pioneer passing legislation that provides some guardrails to AI that the rest of the nation is actually modeling.

Of course, Trump now is threatening to have federal legislation that stomps down all of this regulation.

Sure, I have my eyes wide open, but I'd say that it was death by a thousand cuts, Chuck.

There wasn't one thing, it was many things.

We've got to find a happy medium.

And in California, I think the challenge, like many states, is civic engagement, right?

I do think there are legitimate concerns for human beings and for kids about technology and AI.

But here's where I generally rest, Chuck, and I'll use the analogy of the big gulp in Bloomberg.

Just the number of people who actually care.

I think in California right now, unfortunately, there are more people who care about national politics

You remember that?

And some of those fights, the Newsom-Trump fight, which gets so much energy, but it doesn't actually have anything to do with what's ailing the state.

And I love that part.

I love that part of RFK's agenda.