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Alex Wissner-Gross

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646 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

OpenAI has hundreds of millions of people now using GPT 5.5 instant for free.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Maybe there's some ad support eventually, but it's basically for free.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

And that's giving everyone at least a small stake in compute.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

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.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

I agree.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

And I would also maybe add the situation is highly dynamic.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

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.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Yeah.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

I'm of a couple of minds on this.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

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.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

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.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

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.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

It's rough being an AI agent.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

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.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

You can't get insurance for AI activities unless you follow some checklists that are dictated by the actuaries.

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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

And that's where pressure to align comes from, maybe not from top-down government pressure.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

So that's the half.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

Is Blitzy going to launch a line of insurance?

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

What do you think the real probabilityβ€” With your forbearance, I'll answer a few of these.

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Google's Record Quarter, the White House Intervenes, and GPT 5.5 Silently Matches Mythos | EP 254

That's all right by me.

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