Alex Bores
speaker
694 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Apr
Alex Bores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And gave our public universities access to it so they could run experiments at a much cheaper rate and made a public investment on a research front to go after lots of things, including science.
AI alignment and AI safety, but we could be directing grants to that specific research and we could be building the infrastructure in the government to make that cheaper.
I absolutely believe we should be trying to use AI for good.
And New York was the first state to do this.
Others are following.
But the federal government has the resources to really do a deep investment here.
And yeah, for a while, AI benefits have been riding on the story of AlphaFold and solving protein folding, which was an incredible advance and has sped up drug discovery.
But there could be more like that out there.
There are definitely more like that out there.
If there's not, then we've been sold a bill of goods here.
And I think the government should be
making use of this technology for good and directing research in that way that doesn't by the way solve alignment problems it could be that you want it to do really good things and then actually in pursuing that it goes off in a whole other different direction but yes that is a good use of public investment so let's focus in on drug development for a minute because i think it's in some ways like the clearest case i mean glp-1s for instance are a revolution right now but they're actually a quite old drug been around for decades and
But we have to cut red tape and cut regulations.
One of the ways that I have used AI already is I put every statute in New York State through an LLM and asked it to identify laws that are out of date, that require paper when we could do something digitally, a bunch of ways of checking that we have requirements that are just getting in the way of getting things done.
what Jen Palka might call the policy cruft that develops over time, and put together now a 60-page bill for this session of just pulling out a bunch of these old requirements that are getting in the way of doing things.
We can do the similar thing with regulations, not just with statutes, but where have we developed practices that are now in the way of moving forward in drug discovery or broadly.
Yeah, we need to change policies that stop government from getting things done.
And sometimes that's in technology doing the thing more efficiently.
Sometimes that's in using the technology or not, but finding ways to identify choke points and find ways to alleviate them.
And I think we need to make that a priority.
Showing 481–500 of 694 · page 25 of 35
← Previous
Next →