SITUATION EXPLAINED: The Treasury Secretary gave the frontier labs a D-minus on community outreach. "Whether it's the data center companies, the hyperscalers, or the large language labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, they have done a horrendous job reaching out to communities. I don't blame people for having a backlash." "I used to be a professor and I was known as a tough grader, but it's easy to give these guys a D minus. They have taken their credibility to the edge." "We need to acknowledge there is a lot of Chinese agitprop in there. These protesters who show up in rural areas, that was not a spontaneous outpouring of the community. It's very well organized." "There is no day after tomorrow that China wins against us. If they were to pull away from us on AI, then nothing would matter." "The Chinese want pause. Even the North Koreans, they want pause." @theojaffee: "They're still framing opposition to AI in terms of opposition to data centers, which is the most common way the general public is opposed to AI right now. But there are other reasons to be skeptical of the continued rapid development of AI that have nothing at all to do with data centers, and that are far beyond these."