Josh Tyrangiel

And I found a whole kind of AI counterculture of people who just don't get written or talked about enough.

So that's really what the book is.

I wish there were more types of people, to be honest.

You know, there are four to six people who run the big AI labs.

and who are really in charge of most of the advanced technology, that's not enough in my book, right?

That's a concentration of incredible power in the hands of just very few people.

And all those people, whatever you may think of their personalities or their morals, all those people are more or less alike, right?

They're driven by business.

Now, two years into it, they have investors and those investors want returns.

They are driving the tech to a very specific place.

So I'm not here to tell you it's all going to be okay.

I'm really not.

I think that to this point, the United States has kind of done what it usually does when something new comes along, which is abdicate the need to regulate to try and get ahead and be competitive in the market.

And that's great.

except for the fact that this tech is different.

It really is different than any other technology that we've ever had before.

And it's kind of hard for regulators, politicians, and even normal people to wrap your head around the fact that these machines make themselves smarter, right?

So we think it's one thing one day, the next day it can be something totally different.

And I can't tell you it's all gonna be okay.

I think it's a real civilization testing moment and we're gonna see how we respond.