Saikat Chakrabarti

And we are spending all this money on dropping bombs in other countries and doing these endless wars, but no one wants that.

If you look at the polling, only about 3% of Democrats and only 16% of Republicans want a larger defense budget because that argument of we could be spending all this money and all these resources developing our own means of making a living, that really works.

But when it comes to AI and the data centers,

You're absolutely right.

It's a completely bipartisan issue, both on the data centers themselves and the energy they're gobbling up and how it's driving up people's home and energy prices.

But the larger question here of, you know, right now we have this technology that might be wiping out half of our jobs and basically determining the future of our society.

Why should a handful of tech CEOs get to determine that future?

Why do why should they have all that power?

Right.

And it's a technology that fundamentally was trained off of the sum product of human labor, of the things we produce.

That's how these LLMs get trained.

So I believe that we should have an ownership stake of it on it.

Right.

We should we as a people, democracy should be able to determine the future of our country, not just a few tech oligarchs.

And that is a message that I think the vast majority of people agree with, Democrat and Republican.

Yeah, I honestly don't understand how you go down that route.

I mean, I didn't come from money.

I grew up middle class in Texas going to public schools, and my parents, frankly, grew up quite poor.

They were from India, and my dad was a refugee during partition in India, which was a terrible event where they cut the country up along religious lines.

So he grew up with his family at 12, this tiny one bedroom apartment, often having no idea where his next meal would come from.