Manoush Zomorodi

Alvin, you have been in this field, AI, cybersecurity, VR, semiconductors, 35 years you've been doing this.

But what makes you very different is that it's been both in the United States as a US citizen and in China a lot of the time.

I think a lot of people feel ambivalent about AI.

They feel like, what is actually really happening?

What is hype?

And what is transforming our existence?

Where are we right now, according to you?

Can we get into that a little bit more?

Because I think the narrative we've all been told, at least certainly by Sam Altman and maybe some other AI executives, is that we got to lock this technology down, we got to grow it, we got to grow it fast, because if we don't, China will.

Would you agree with that?

OK, so, I mean, despite what we've just talked about so far, Alvin is actually an optimist.

He is, I promise.

Explain the vision that you have come up with about how we take the right track, that we take this moment of inflection and we actually pivot in a good way.

Woo, for open science.

Nerds, I love it.

So how are we going to convince people to do this, technologists, governments, to go along with this?

OK, that's a lot to take in.

I do want to give us something actionable, right?

Because it can feel like, oh, this AI thing is happening to us and that it's inevitable.

But what can we do?