jasmine sun

I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at AI labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk: 1) Techno-determinism: Someone will buil...

A real pleasure talking to @ezraklein about data centers, the permanent underclass, SBF mindset, and AI vibes from SF to Shanghai https://w...

A real pleasure talking to @ezraklein about data centers, the permanent underclass, SBF mindset, and AI vibes from SF to Shanghai — and esp ...

This piece is out! 4 sites, 10 days, and 6000 words on the politics of data centers in the Midwest: https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-...

I’m spending the next week driving around Wisconsin and Michigan to get a firsthand view of the data center buildout and backlash am visiti...

I've been thinking about the booing at college commencements & wondered: what advice would I give a 22yo for the age of AI? thinking back t...

An honor to interview the novelist Benjamín Labatut about Von Neumann, his conversations with Demis, and what the AI industry misses — "Li...

I think "being real with yourself" is the most underrated cognitive skill for the AI age — AI makes it too easy to lie to yourself: to sel...

2025 was the year that "Chinese peptides" took over SF. I wrote about it in my first for the NYT: gift link here https://nytimes.com/2026/0...