Ben Horowitz

They just want it out of the deal.

Now, I don't know why they want it out of the deal, whether it was an employee thing or a Dario thing or what have you, but, you know, that's what happened.

And I think the fact that it's getting reported on like there's some ethical conflict, I don't think there is.

And in fact...

If you wanted somebody to use your AI safely, nobody has more rules than the US government, you know, particularly the Department of War.

And nobody is more, by the way, and then, and since I'm speaking to a Washington crowd, you know this,

If you were to break those rules, there is a 100% chance it's getting leaked to the press immediately.

Like there are no secrets in Washington.

So, you know, the whole thing was a little bit surreal to me to watch, at least at this point.

Yeah, so, you know, it's interesting.

When I spoke to the firm about it the first time when we started American Diamonds and so forth, I said, look,

You know, like you can have whatever geopolitical views you want to have, but like the world is what it is.

You know, it's not like everybody has agreed on peace worldwide.

And it's not as if everybody's agreed not to commit crime ever.

So like we do have crime, we do have war, we have these things.

And then you have to think about

okay, the people that we grew up with who have gone into the military risked their lives to save our lives.

You are making the call because you are better ethically and you know more about geopolitics and the people in the State Department and the people running the Department of War and the people running the intelligence agencies.

You're going to decide that those people who are sacrificing their lives, putting their lives on the line to protect us, don't get the best technology?

Like, I'm not doing that.