David Sachs

The fear.

The fears.

And we can talk about some of those fears and whether we think they're real.

But I think the media has a lot to do with it.

I think that...

The way that Hollywood has portrayed AI over the decades, whether it's The Terminator or 2001, has portrayed this dystopian view of the future.

And I think that plays into people's thinking.

And then frankly, I would say that part of the fault lies with

our tech leaders who haven't necessarily done a great job describing the benefits of AI.

In fact, when they're talking about AI eliminating 50% of knowledge workers, that doesn't sound like a very utopian scenario.

That sounds dystopian to most people.

And so I do think that unintentionally, some of our tech leaders have played into this AI pessimism.

And the reason why I think this could be a disadvantage for the United States is because, again, it's feeding into this regulatory frenzy.

We're seeing, again, 1,200 bills at the state level.

And right now, I think we are winning this AI race.

We're ahead in all the key dimensions, chips, models, and so on.

But we could shoot ourselves in the foot.

If we end up over-regulating this thing to death, we could actually cost ourselves this AI race.

So I do worry about this question of AI optimism.

It seems so.