David Sacks

I mean, that's like, why do people hate technology?

I mean, that's like, why do people hate technology?

I think that there's an underlying view that technology creates leverage for a small group of people, which creates power imbalances.

I think that there's an underlying view that technology creates leverage for a small group of people, which creates power imbalances.

And nothing represents that more than AI.

And nothing represents that more than AI.

That a small number of people that control and profit from and benefit from AI...

That a small number of people that control and profit from and benefit from AI...

are going to end up getting outsized returns relative to the broader population, that the time to diffusion of the technology, because ultimately all technologies like commoditize and diffuse, but the time to diffusion here is such that it's going to be like extremely asymmetric for society.

are going to end up getting outsized returns relative to the broader population, that the time to diffusion of the technology, because ultimately all technologies like commoditize and diffuse, but the time to diffusion here is such that it's going to be like extremely asymmetric for society.

And I think that there is something fundamental about that.

And I think that there is something fundamental about that.

It's like, you know, nuclear bombs, I think, really created this moment in people's minds in the mid 20th century that by the back half of the 20th century gave everyone a high degree of skepticism about technology and science generally, that those who have the knowledge and those who engineer solutions with the knowledge can create outsized advantages for themselves.

It's like, you know, nuclear bombs, I think, really created this moment in people's minds in the mid 20th century that by the back half of the 20th century gave everyone a high degree of skepticism about technology and science generally, that those who have the knowledge and those who engineer solutions with the knowledge can create outsized advantages for themselves.

And it puts the rest of us at risk, the rest of the world, the rest of the population at risk.

And it puts the rest of us at risk, the rest of the world, the rest of the population at risk.

And because those questions about when does this benefit me?

And because those questions about when does this benefit me?

How does it benefit me can't be answered today.

How does it benefit me can't be answered today.