David Sacks

Obviously, you have the influence of Hollywood has created a lot of dystopian films about AI.

You've got the fact that, like we talked about, these CEOs are doing a horrible job and they keep talking about putting everyone out of business.

I mean, this has, I think, been not accidental.

I would say some of these CEOs...

are speaking this way because they're not very good at comms.

I think others are actually doing it because they see a strategy there.

You know, they're going for a regulatory capture agenda.

It could be for financing reasons, like you've mentioned, Shamath.

It's like they want to tout the stuff for fundraising.

But also, I think that some of it is to...

create a regulatory backlash that they can then control, create a licensing scheme or permissioning scheme.

And that's a big part of it too.

And then I think you just have the fact that in our media environment, the scare stories are the ones that get a lot more attention than the heartwarming stories.

If it

If it bleeds, it leads type thing.

So you can just see how unpopular it is for all of these reasons.

But you understand, like, if you're, say, a professional association that sees it as your job to protect your industry from disruption, you might actually want to spread FUD about AI in order to then seek those protections through your state legislature.

And that is what he's pushing.

And actually, that brings me to another point, which is, if you look closely at Bernie Sanders messaging, one of the talking points he used was literally verbatim from Future of Life Institute.

I think it was something about how AI is less regulated than a sandwich shop, which is just not true.