Why America Is Turning Against AI | Prof G Markets

Yeah, I mean, I think people don't like a lot of things. And to be clear, regardless of what you think of either AI or Sam Altman, no one should be throwing Molotov cocktails at his home or at anyone's home. But I think you've got a combination of one, just general distrust in our happiness in this country, right? Whether it is the fact that we are 23rd in the World Happiness Report or 62nd for people under the age of 25. Whether it's the fact that our government seems to be hijacked by extremists on both sides of the aisle.

Whether it's the fact that we haven't regulated internet 2.0 yet, so even things like social media have never been dealt with by Washington, let alone AI. And then combine that with the fact that AI is really unpopular. I saw a YouGov poll that showed that people have a 47 to 27 by margin of people distrust of AI. People think that AI will replace a lot more jobs than it creates. Almost every different survey mechanism out there shows that people are fearful, and then anecdotally when you just talk to people, they feel the same way. And then you mentioned in the intro, local opposition blocking the construction of data centers. I think that's often the fault of the hyperscalers who seem to think that it would be okay to pass along all of their energy costs to regular consumers, right? And if you are living near a data center, the idea that your electricity bill should go up 30, 40% to subsidize Sam Altman or Jensen Huang or whoever it is so that they can become trillionaires is unacceptable. And in this case, I think it's actually elected officials on both sides of the aisle acting in the interest to protect their constituents. And so yeah, when you have a government that consistently fails to regulate technology, when you have a government that feels run by the extremes, and you have a society that's generally unhappy, these are unfortunately the kind of things that come from it.