Krystal Ball

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44,786 appearances 237 recordings 6 series first heard May 2025 last heard 3d ago

Krystal Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar · 9/24/26: Nvidia CEO Warns On AI, Professor Pape Dire Election Warning, Bay Of Piglets Survivors Speak Out · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

So I think, you know, this is the sort of thing that there is a lot of Twitter discourse, Ryan, that is in opposition to this. voice-verified

But if you poll the general public, this has like 70 percent support. voice-verified

and it's Republican and Democrat. voice-verified

We don't understand what's going on, so let's just stop. voice-verified

Let's stop. voice-verified

Let's let the science and the democracy, by the way, catch up. voice-verified

And if you can do this safely moving forward, pushing the bounds of the frontier, then okay. voice-verified

But we need to figure that out first, not wait for some Chernobyl-style incident before we get serious about regulating these companies. voice-verified

Well, and here's the crazy thing. voice-verified

And the financial incentive that I actually see more underneath the surface for Sam and Elon and Dario is less this regulatory capture scheme, which feels a little like, you know, if that's what you were going for, it feels like there are other directions that voice-verified

Yeah, I mean, they've got lobbyists, they've got super PACs, like that would be where they're pushing it. voice-verified

But what does make sense is these companies are actually very profitable today if you take out all of the training costs. voice-verified

What costs the most money for them is training these frontier models. voice-verified

Yet they all feel sort of locked into this race to the frontier to, you know, what they call super, they call super intelligence before Trump called it that, where, you voice-verified

Intelligence explosion, like they feel sort of locked into that race because they don't want their competitor or China to get there first. voice-verified

However, they have these IPOs coming up. voice-verified

And if you could lop off all of those training costs, then actually they are very profitable today. voice-verified

I mean, the revenue growth at Anthropic has been some of the largest and fastest in history. voice-verified

People are paying for the subscriptions. voice-verified

Businesses are paying for the subscriptions. voice-verified

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