Ro Khanna

Sad all the time as an American because you have this carpal tunnel in your wrist because you're holding your phone all the time.

And you know how you just lost your job because a robot just took it.

And you know how these people are at this point almost literally trillionaires and you're struggling to pay your bills.

Those people are a problem.

And what you seem to be doing is, yes, offering a way to keep them included in this coalition.

And at the same time, I don't know if they're down for the compromise.

Well, I want to be specific to your point.

I don't want to be overbroad in my characterization of the political opportunities in our country right now.

But artificial intelligence.

If you're to reckon with it seriously and you're to actually look into your crystal ball again, I wonder about just the job of truck driver.

Yeah.

And I'm not saying that, gosh, we got to preserve the human truck driver for all time.

But I just see, anyone can see, the ways in which artificial intelligence and robots are, again, on the one hand...

caricatures of sci-fi concepts, and yet the actual thing that our country has to deal with.

Yeah, I mean, look, the unintended consequences of AI, right?

That's the thing that is glowing in my brain.

You also have a background, you formerly specialize in intellectual property law.

And I was wondering how you think about AI through that lens.

Because AI is, of course, hoovering up intellectual property perpetually.

Data centers are enabling that.