Alex Bores

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694 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 21 Apr

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The Ezra Klein Show · Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

And it's a question of where that power lies.

If you take as a given that there will be a super intelligence developed, which is

I don't see any reason why there won't be at this point.

Then, of course, it's an uncomfortable question about where that sits, because you're talking about something that is smarter than any human ever.

That is a real power question.

And this is a real question that needs to be settled by policy, that needs to be settled by law, that if you're just leaving it up to the whims of an executive branch where there's no restrictions on them or private companies where there's no law,

Both of those feel deeply uncomfortable.

This is why we need Congress to step up to the plate and actually decide how this division should happen.

Well, I don't think right now metaphorically throwing your body on the train tracks will make a strong difference.

I do think we should slow down the development until we've made a lot more progress on the alignment problem.

I do think we're getting into really risky territory.

What you need, and one of the sections of the plan, is about diplomacy.

It's about international action.

We should be engaging with other countries.

You should be engaging with China.

We should be building universal verification systems on what is happening both at the chip level, where you can look at the geography and how it's being used, and in the models themselves.

We should be trying to lower the temperature on their being in arms race.

So, yeah, I am worried.

If I had a magic wand, I would slow things down until we had better guarantees about what we were stepping into and where we were going.

We would build out an initiative that we've done in New York called Empire AI, which was that the state government bought a large cluster of GPUs and committed to continuing to build that out.

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