David Sachs
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The main characters always have to be the entrepreneurs.
It's got to be the innovators.
That's how you unlock innovation.
When the
When you start to see yourself, I mean, the regulators and the policymakers as the main characters, that's not a great recipe for innovation.
Well, I think there are Orwellian scenarios of AI that I think we should be concerned about.
And again, I tend to think that those scenarios were described by George Orwell, not by James Cameron and the Terminator.
And specifically, it's misuse of AI by government.
I do think that
AI could be used as a tool to surveil, to censor, to even potentially brainwash the population.
This is why the administration has taken such a firm stance against what is called woke AI, which I almost think that that name maybe trivializes the magnitude of the problem we're talking about.
We're talking about AI having a political bias built into it.
And the bias can be so subtle that people don't even necessarily notice over time, but it has a huge impact on what people are allowed to learn and think and know and what children learn.
And so I think it's very important that we try to make sure that AI was politically unbiased.
So they're just in this regard.
One of the things that we were so concerned about with that by an executive order on AI that we were send it in the first week is that I had 20 pages of language on DEI and it was promoting this idea that AI models need to build in a DEI layer.
Well,
you know, this is how you ended up with, you know, the Black George Washington, you know, story where the first version of Gemini came out and it was, you know, it was basically rewriting history to serve a current political agenda of DEI.
And, you know, that was in a way that that case of bias was so ludicrous that everyone kind of laughed at it.
But it gives you a sense of