David Sacks

So I get very worried about what if some government agency can give notes to the model developers and they start telling the model developers that your definition of safety is not expansive enough.

You have to, again, protect the public from disinformation or psychological harms.

So again, I think we just have to be careful not to aggrandize government because that's going to be the most likely culprit in terms of the centralization of power.

And

I know the Vatican likes Latin.

This is a problem of political philosophy that goes all the way back to Socrates.

It's called quis custodiat ipsos custodes, which is who will guard the guardians.

In other words, if we entrust a set of guardians to protect us from a bunch of threats, what's to stop them

from becoming tyrannical and from becoming the new threat against us.

And I mean, this is the central dilemma of political power.

Who watches the watchers?

Yeah, who watches the watchers or who guards the guardians, meaning who's going to protect us against our guardians if they turn against us?

The genius of the American founding, by the way, is that it was a second order solution to this question.

The founders

of America very much understood this.

And what they came up with is we have to have the guardians guard against each other.

And so they came up with the idea of separation of powers.

We'd have separation of federal and state.

We'd have the three branches of the government, even within the legislative branch, it was a bicameral legislature.

So they divided up the powers in a way that hopefully the guardians would check against each other as opposed to becoming tyrannical against us.