Zershaaneh Qureshi
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Sep
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This is not true across the board, but in lots of cases, we've got sort of people who are living together, reading the same books, going to all the same parties, using all the same jargon.
And I wonder how much you think that's kind of creating a divide with the public or how much that's sort of reinforcing this gap that you're observing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm curious what you think needs to happen to get these groups, i.e.
the AI community and the public to, I don't want to say reconcile because they may never get on, may never like sort of agree, but, you know, at least start sort of speaking the same language.
Yeah, I'm wondering how that view squares up with the phenomenon that you've noted where people, like at least in the sort of AI populist category that you've sketched out, people are so fundamentally mistrustful of the elite groups who are building these things that it kind of doesn't matter to them how useful the tools are.
Like what needs to happen?
Like how did getting these sort of material benefits sort of change their psychology around the mistrust of the elite?
I want to move on here because you've also spent a lot of time in China where I think public attitudes towards AI at least seem on the surface to be very different to what they're like in the US.
You've got this situation where people's grandparents in nursing homes are just exuberant users of DeepSeq.
And also when you have, I think, some survey results, you can see that in China, most people see more benefit than drawback to AI, which is like a very different picture in the US.
How do you explain this contrast?
Is what's going on here just some sort of culture of techno-optimism in China at play?
Yeah, interesting.
I mean, I wonder how much...
what you're seeing here tracks the reactions to sort of previous waves for automation in China.
I don't know how much you know about this.
I mean, one example that kind of slightly goes against the grain of what you're saying is that I know there has been some backlash to technology in China.
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