Mark Halperin

I actually have a case where a client of mine was a victim of sextortion.

What these companies are doing, I think there's –

there's a reckoning that's coming in the future.

And I think they realize it and they realize that the only way to try to thwart that is try to play in politics and donate huge sums of cash.

But the impact social media has had on our children and this next generation and the unlimited impacts that AI might have has probably pushed them off the sidelines and into politics in order to protect their own interests.

Natalie, you know I like to analyze MAGA in the crudest and most superficial terms.

On the one hand, you've got a love of free markets and a love of low regulation and American exceptionalism in business, and we're number one in the world in AI.

On the other hand, MAGA doesn't like corporate or any special interests trying to use money to influence public policy.

So MAGA seems to me, and David Sachs seems wide open on this, and totally no one in the administration is going to care.

But do you think anybody in MAGA cares that you're going to see corporate interests with totally self-interest?

We want a certain public policy outcome, so we're going to make sure people who agree with us get elected.

Will that cause any alarm in MAGA?

Mark, I was just going to say, Ed,

Their issues don't seem to be dominated by a specific party.

It seems to be garnering some Democrats and some Republicans as it relates to either regulation of AI or holding these social media companies accountable for the damage they're doing.

Yeah, it seems like they're going to hedge their bets in part because a lot of corporate interests do in general.

And because while the Republicans seem more open to unfettered development of AI, Democrats may be in the majority, certainly in the House and maybe even now in the Senate.

And so they don't want to be giving all their money to Republicans and then have to deal with the next Congress where it's controlled by Democrats.

100% agree.

Two closing questions for you both on AI.