David Sacks

When the proliferation began, there was no stopping it.

When the proliferation began, there was no stopping it.

It began and you had to have this balance in the world.

It began and you had to have this balance in the world.

Otherwise you have effectively an asymmetric power that can do whatever it wants globally.

Otherwise you have effectively an asymmetric power that can do whatever it wants globally.

I think there's that moment in the world right now where if the United States does not advance its AI technology, the availability of it, TBD industry, taxation, all these things that we're talking about doing, there will be someone else that will.

I think there's that moment in the world right now where if the United States does not advance its AI technology, the availability of it, TBD industry, taxation, all these things that we're talking about doing, there will be someone else that will.

And if someone else does, we can go through what would happen.

And if someone else does, we can go through what would happen.

There's a complicated game theory on this, but what would happen if China had sufficiently advanced models and sufficiently advanced scaled deployment of those models relative to the United States?

There's a complicated game theory on this, but what would happen if China had sufficiently advanced models and sufficiently advanced scaled deployment of those models relative to the United States?

As you do that analysis, you realize, wait a second, that's probably not a healthy place for the world to be.

As you do that analysis, you realize, wait a second, that's probably not a healthy place for the world to be.

It's also probably not a healthy place for the United States to be the only one with AI.

It's also probably not a healthy place for the United States to be the only one with AI.

And so I think what we end up seeing

And so I think what we end up seeing

is if we do try and slow down AI, we kind of lose this moment of balance that's necessary when you have a technology proliferation, like we saw with the arms race after World War Two, that, you know, we're gonna see again here.

is if we do try and slow down AI, we kind of lose this moment of balance that's necessary when you have a technology proliferation, like we saw with the arms race after World War Two, that, you know, we're gonna see again here.