Jason Calacanis

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.

And that is kind of my view on AI is that ultimately we have to have a solution of checks and balances.

If the AI market becomes monopolized and falls into the hands of one or two companies, I would use antitrust law very aggressively as a check and balance against their power.

Right now, we have a very competitive market.

We have five frontier labs competing very aggressively.

As long as the market is competitive, I would use that because I think competition generates the best outcomes.

It helps us win against China, but it also protects the population because these companies, if they get out of line, there's some competitor that can offer something better.