Concerns Over AI Regulation and Safety

telling you that their models are very dangerous. I think we should believe them. It, it certainly is like some, some crazy 4D chess to- ... you know, um, you know, as, say the, these i- there, there's whatever 10% chance of

annihilating humanity. But by the way, um, how much allocation would you like in our IPO? Yeah, okay, so there's the crux. See, some people are saying this is dangerous, take it seriously, but others say these are AI giants who are

trying to create a government-sanctioned monopoly where they're the ones that have the keys to the kingdom and no other startups can ever get inside the door. What do you think? I think anyone who's read about the promise of AI or the threat of

AI is reasonably concerned about out of control AI tools- Mm ... that can cause damage. They're also excited about the promise that, that it

has. What we have seen in the last week though is something kind of altogether different, which is top oligarchs from some of these top tech companies all coming out at the same time and saying, "We need a regulatory scheme to deal with the fact that we're running dangerous

companies." It is kinda weird that they claim that they're running dangerous companies, but they don't wanna do anything about it themselves. They're asking for regulation. On the other hand, if you're in DC,

you see this all the time. Companies innovate, people innovate, they start making a lot of money, and boy have these AI companies had a lot of money pouring into

them. Oh, yeah. And then you don't want anyone else to compete with you- Mm ... while you're trying to secure more and more profit.

And so some people are s- are a little bit suspicious about how this is all coming out at the same time, amplified by people who are heavily aligned with Democrat donors. And you saw President Barack Obama

and former presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, whose own daughter works at one of these AI companies. They're all coming out and saying, "Uh, we now need to do a regulatory scheme to deal with this, uh, alleged threat."

I mean, for me the, the, the one big red flag is what company invites government regulation? Well, it- They're all trying to get rid of government regulation-

Except that- ... for the most part ... except that if you are trying to keep out competitors, that's actually a pretty common thing that you see people say.

They- No, I mean, m- but for any other reason than that. Yeah. So, so, uh, the doomer warnings that AI is gonna kill us all, I mean, that we've seen in the last week, there's been a lot out of Jacob Coxen

formerly from, from Anthropic and, uh, OpenAI came out. Here's what Jerry Baker wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "I'm a natural skeptic of alarmism and suspicious whenever a company tells me

the government must do something. We have been told for the past 70 years that unless the government acts, life on the planet is about to be extinguished by nuclear weapons, climate change, Y2K, pandemics. We're still waiting.

There has not yet been an extinction-level eve- uh, event." Uh, I mean, on the one hand as you point out, AI can be extraordinarily helpful and beneficial, but then there is a potential dark side that I find frightening. Well, that is absolutely true, but what I think people

are concerned about in this particular case is that people are fomenting hysteria about AI precisely so that a group of people who are heavily aligned with the Democratic Party can have control of the entire AI space. You know, whoever controls information

controls politics. We went from radio to TV to cable TV to social media, and now we're in this age of AI algorithms. Whoever controls that will have the power to censor any opinions they don't want.

Mm-hmm. And a lot of the people who are involved here, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and some of these AI tech companies, were involved with some of the worst and most

egregious censh- censorship that we saw during COVID, where you weren't allowed to talk freely about what was going on or else you'd be punished on these, um, social media platforms. And if they can control

information, they can control politics for decades to come. And so the fact that you're seeing a partisan divide here, where all of the prominent Democrats are pushing for a particular regulatory scheme, but the

Republicans are saying, "We're not so sure," is really a reflection of that censorship issue. You know, I keep hearing we've gotta win the AI race.

I'm not sure what victory looks like because China's certainly gonna keep going even if we get there first. I don't know. Mollye, good to talk to you. Thanks so much. Thanks. Appreciate it. Sandra?

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