David Sacks

Now, the debate has now moved over to AI apps.

And there's a lot of parents groups that want to ban kids or teenagers from being able to use AI chat apps because there was a couple of cases of self-harm.

Now, my reaction to that is, look, I've got a 10-year-old, and if he starts using ChatGPT to get answers to questions, I would consider that to be a good thing.

I mean, I'll keep an eye on the usage, but I want him to be an AI native.

I want him to be able to do research.

I want him to be able to know how to use these tools.

I want him to get the right skills to be successful in the 21st century.

In China, they're incorporating AI into K-12 education.

Are we going to ban it?

For our kids and teenagers, I think that'd be a terrible mistake.

So I think when it comes to AI and AI chat apps, it has to be up to the parents because there's too much manifest good that can come out of kids learning how to use these apps.

Maybe social networking is in a different category, but I got to say, I do think that the harms have been exaggerated because the trial lawyers have an incentive.

And just to give you some facts about that LA case, so just so you understand,

In this LA case, they were sued by a 20-year-old woman who claimed that she became depressed

because of using social media.

And she apparently suffered body image issues because of social media, and she was able to win this judgment for millions of dollars.

Look, I think there's big causation problems with that case.

In the case of that plaintiff, the evidence showed that she came from an abusive home.

Her father had abandoned her.

Her own mother had body shamed her.