Anthony Aguirre

Well, it's pretty close.

I mean, the amount of money that's being poured by the AI companies into directly lobbying for their desires is immense.

And of course, they are also representing themselves as sort of a national asset that the US is in this geopolitical competition with China.

And that, you know, if you're against building the AGI or superintelligence or just giving them pretty much anything they want,

that that is giving into this geopolitical competition and so on.

So I think this is really very disingenuous, but that is an argument that is being made.

So I think the U.S.

government is...

rightly paying attention to it.

And in the AI action plan that they put out, they are acknowledging that there are large scale risks from AI and that it's going to take a lot of careful management.

Unfortunately, they seem largely to want to leave that to the companies to do.

And I think in a competitive landscape like this, where there's this all out battle to sort of quickly put out products and show that yours is better than the next one and gobs of money lying around, self-governance is just not something that's going to work.

Yeah, I think the...

I mean, with all spaces, I think we have to find the right balance of what is good to have hands off and where are the natural market dynamics really not going to give us what we want.

And I think there are parts of the internet that it was wonderful to have basically no regulation of.

And then there are parts like we really dropped the ball on social media, I think, that we created something that had like zero regulation and...

these incredibly strong drivers toward optimizing attention and, you know, advertisement based, you know, everything and a feed algorithm that feeds on like sucking up attention and creating addiction.

This was a bad idea.

Like we should not have left that totally alone.

That's what is in a bad place.