Zoe Schiffer
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It's happening on some level, but not super, super widespread quite yet.
It's also that people aren't leaving jobs because they're scared.
And so there's just not a lot of movement.
You're telling me a billionaire wasn't self-aware about the people?
Yeah.
And postings for entry-level jobs in the U.S.
overall have declined about 35 percent since January 2023.
So it's real.
I mean, there's an impact on the market.
I mean, I actually think that this is going to be an issue in the next election, which is so interesting because I definitely wouldn't have said that a few months ago.
But I think, I mean, and this is, you know, Maxwell Zaff, one of our great AI reporters, has reported about Greg Brockman's donations to Trump and other MAGA leaders.
And he's talked to Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, who said that he feels like it's really important to give money to politicians who are bullish on AI.
And I think the subtext there is that OpenAI and other companies are actually concerned about the lack of popularity for what they're building.
It's going to be really interesting because I went down to Abilene, Texas with OpenAI a few months ago and I was really struck.
Ted Cruz was there, the mayor of the town was there.
It seemed like there was so much political support for this initiative and I was immediately thinking like,
I think that this is going to turn at a certain point.
Like right now, you're like, look, it's going to create all these jobs.
It's going to be so great.
We're going into these areas that didn't have a lot of economic opportunity, and we're creating it.