Nikesh Arora

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2,918 appearances 12 recordings 8 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 6 Aug

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs | Memory Becoming the Moat | Where Value Accrues: Infra, Models, or Apps? | Why Enterprise AI is Not Ready & Systems of Record vs Systems of Intelligence · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

I think we're going through a discovery process.

I think this notion of guardrails has not been built robustly enough.

These models seem to be easy to get past.

I remember the early days when I used to read about somebody had this conversation with a model and found a way to, you know,

albeit the guardrails because it asked questions differently and the model was able to get sort of jailbroken and became a hobby amongst people and they had all kinds of conversation with models.

It's the same challenge.

How do you make sure that you can put enough guardrails around the AI model that you've built to make sure it's only used for the purpose that you had?

That's the challenge that there is.

I think the guardrail needs to get better.

To the extent the government feels the guardrails aren't robust enough, it's trying to tell us it's a national security issue, we need to go fix the guardrails.

But I think it's a simple matter of trying to fix or treat the guardrails as a real problem and solve it.

Is it possible?

The paranoia I have, if I look at self-driving, there are broadly two or three approaches out there, right?

One was my car is not going to have a human in it.

It's called Waymo.

I'm going to keep pounding it.

I'm going to keep pounding it, training it until it learns by itself to drive and no human should be holding the steering wheel ever when my customers are.

You see it's out there.

Many cities have Waymo's.

I saw one down the street from here.

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