Why public opinion turned on AI
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I'm Miles Bryan, I'm guest hosting the gray area today. Jasmine's son is a journalist living in San Francisco who covers the artificial intelligence industry. Jasmine is one of the best reporters out there on the culture and politics of AI. I asked her to come on the show to talk about an existential threat the AI industry. A populist backlash that's building across the country and across both parties. We talked about what makes up AI populism.
how Silicon Valley ended up getting caught flat footed. And what this might all mean for American politics. Jasmine Sun, welcome to the gray area. Thanks for joining us. Thank you for having me. So you're a journalist, but you've also described yourself as an anthropologist of disruption, right? What does that mean?
Mm. I think uh I use the word anthropologist to sort of um describe the particular approach and dimension to technology that I'm interested in covering. Um, I cover AI and Silicon Valley, but I think I'm somewhat less interested in sort of the day to day corporate dramas or the earnings reports, and much more interested in uh both how technologists, the people building AI, think about the thing they are building, and then also what happens when those frontier technologies go and collide with existing cultures, communities, institutions. And so those like collision points, the disruption between um some crazy new frontier technology like AI,
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