Alex Wissner-Gross
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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OpenAI has hundreds of millions of people now using GPT 5.5 instant for free.
Maybe there's some ad support eventually, but it's basically for free.
And that's giving everyone at least a small stake in compute.
Give it a few months, give it a few years, and that UBC, you know, GPT 7.5 instant or whatever, will be able to design a robot that prints you your steak dinner.
I agree.
And I would also maybe add the situation is highly dynamic.
So a good solution for the next year is not necessarily a good solution 10 years from now when I think GPT 10.0 instant or whatever will probably have the ability to print out the robot that prints your dinner.
Yeah.
I'm of a couple of minds on this.
On the one hand, I'm sort of disappointed with this trend in the sense that it's yet another opportunity or vantage point for deplatforming AI agents from the human economy, just like if you're an AI agent.
It's very difficult still to open up your own bank account, and we've had discussions on the pod previously about various forms of limited AI personhood.
Now, if you're an AI agent just trying to make your way in the economy, you can't even get insurance coverage for yourself.
It's rough being an AI agent.
On the other hand, when we talk about alignment, and particularly alignment in a capitalist system, pressures from insurance companies for AI-related damages are arguably one of the capitalist forcing functions for ensuring AI alignment.
You can't get insurance for AI activities unless you follow some checklists that are dictated by the actuaries.
And that's where pressure to align comes from, maybe not from top-down government pressure.
So that's the half.
Is Blitzy going to launch a line of insurance?
What do you think the real probabilityβ With your forbearance, I'll answer a few of these.
That's all right by me.