Sneha Revanur

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #246 – Sneha Revanur on how a small team of activists helped pass America's landmark AI safety laws · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

I do think we'll get there at some point, but we're definitely not there yet.

And I don't think that we'll be there this year for the midterms.

I do think, though, what's been really interesting is that candidates are feeling all this pressure to stand out and to take positions on the issue and to differentiate themselves.

You know, AI is becoming a really interesting political opportunity for candidates who are competing in crowded primaries, for example, to differentiate themselves.

It's becoming a really interesting opportunity for the Democrats and the Republicans to differentiate themselves.

I think the jury is still out on, like, which party will do a better job of, you know, seizing that opportunity.

But I think it's just been so surreal to see viral campaign ads that are centering AI data centers as the enemy, right?

And to see candidates really taking seriously the possibility of AI-driven job displacement and proposing things like a token tax.

It definitely feels like it's the kitchen table set of concerns that has taken off so far in public messaging.

But yeah, overall, it's super interesting to see a lot of people talking about AI who obviously just weren't talking about AI before.

As for how ENCODE is thinking about this, I think that we are obviously keeping an eye out for candidates who both are going to be champions on addressing catastrophic risk and also have really ambitious plans for more near-term issues like job loss and kid safety.

This is a combination that's been hard to find so far, but I think there are some people who are talking about this.

already it's been really, really exciting to see candidates explicitly talk about things like loss of control risk in their policy platforms and things like this actually come up in the political conversation for the first time.

Looking at 2028, it's no doubt that this very well could be the most important presidential election year in history, right?

And there are a

whether or not AI timelines are shorter or longer, like there's a whole range of outcomes where this could either be the person who will be in charge of the intelligence explosion, or, you know, in any case, this will be a person who is making some very major world historic decisions about AI and like wants to be a person that we trust to, you know, have a lot of context and like wants to be a person we would like really trust with the keys.

One thing I'm also thinking quite a bit about is power concentration risk, right?

And like, what will it mean to empower this person with super intelligence potentially?

And who would we trust to hold the keys in that moment?

And, you know, one thing I'm really concerned about is it's very likely, based on what we're seeing so far, that the executive branch is going to be the first to wake up to just how powerful AI is and is like really going to leave the judicial branch and the legislative branch in the dark.

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