Casey Newton

Do you think that goes away at any point to rip the bandaid off and just go full AI mode?

You're giving the commencement speech at Stanford next month.

I'm sure you've noticed or heard that a bunch of commencement speakers have been booed recently by college students who are worried about AI.

What are you planning to tell the graduates about AI?

And do you have your like boo strategy in place?

You can just pretend they're saying Google.

It's close enough, you know.

Speaking of meetings and your calendar, we hear that you're headed to the White House for some kind of AI executive order signing.

What should the government be doing right now to regulate AI?

Do you like this idea of a kind of pre-release strategy where the government gets to sort of see models before they're released and sign off on them?

Is that a good idea?

Is that potentially dangerous if it gives them the ability to censor or jawbone companies into releasing different kinds of models?

What's your take on that?

Right now, all the labs are racing to get more compute.

There seems to be bottomless demand for compute.

They're hoarding it wherever they can, striking deals, building their own data centers.

Google is still selling access to TPUs to rivals and other companies in the race.

Why?

Why aren't you just keeping that for yourselves and your own models?

The last time we had you on, we asked you about AGI and your feelings about the term.