Episode
Jasmine Sun on What the AI Industry Got Wrong About the Public Backlash
Odd Lots · Aug 21, 2026 · 52 min
Within the AI industry, even the builders of it have been very anxious about the technology. They've talked for years about its potential to create destabilizing job losses. They even spend a lot of time thinking about rogue AI that could lead to human extinction. But for all their anxiety, they missed the thing that's become the most publicly salient: how upset people would be about building…