Zershaaneh Qureshi

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853 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 17 Sep

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #248 – Jasmine Sun on what the people building AI really believe · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, I think what I want to know from you is what you think the natural trajectory is for these kinds of attitudes and behaviors.

Are you anticipating that AI populism is going to start influencing political campaigns a lot more?

Are you sort of...

envisioning that there'd be some kind of, I don't know, Luddite-style revolt in which rather than smashing looms, people are attacking data centers.

How do you see this playing out?

So like-

I guess like a reflection that I have, I mean, besides AI populism,

contributing to like scary violent things in the near term I also it also seems like potentially longer term um it might kind of be bad overall for AI safety um I guess in a couple of senses like one thing that you've mentioned um one effect that you've mentioned right is that

because AI has kind of become the new, like, because China, like politicians kind of using it to push whatever thing they were already trying to push for.

Another thing is just like this misguided focus on things like banning data centers, which, you know, I can understand the sort of the fact that that's kind of coming from feeling kind of powerless about what else you can do.

And then you also have this like very deep

lack of belief and trust in the AI company leaders who are saying that the technology is going to be a really big deal and potentially pose life-altering transformative effects.

I feel like all of these things seem like bad news for the safety, like getting good safety policies in place and making sure things go well.

What do you make of that?

Yeah.

I think another dynamic that we're seeing with AI populism that seems worth unpacking a little bit is that AI companies are just spending lots and lots of money on things like PR, right?

And yet somehow public hostility about AI, populist ideas and so forth are still very much rising.

Yeah, what do you think is going wrong here?

Is the AI community misunderstanding something fundamentally about its audience?

Yeah, I mean, this does seem like one way in which the insularity of the AI community is having an effect, right?

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