Noel King

So the stakes here are very high.

David Sachs is a rich man who is powerfully connected in the White House, and he does not want there to be AI regulation.

And he's made that clear.

And for the moment, the president says there will be no AI regulation.

On the other hand, you have American citizens, many of whom vote, saying we are concerned about AI.

We want laws around this stuff.

So as we try to project over the next couple of years,

So which side of this do you think is going to end up winning, David Sachs or, you know, the concerned citizens of America?

Just in the last couple of months, we've seen this particular question really gear up for a fight because you have increasing concerns, right, from parents who are reading these stories about chatbots, you know, encouraging teenagers to die by suicide or, you

manipulating them in ways that look extremely uncomfortable when you start reading the chats.

My son said explicitly to the spot on several occasions that he wanted to die by suicide, but there weren't any mechanisms to protect him.

And at the same time, you have people kind of

pushing back in an organized way against having more data centers in their neighborhood.

And the idea that we're going to literally change the landscape of the country and other countries in order to power this technology that CEOs say is going to put everybody out of work.

So I would say, you know, before maybe some of the chatbot pushback, you would have had the industry get its way.

And I think that the industry will still be able to push.

win.

And I think that some of the like the ability to do little carve outs for child safety, for issues that are kind of like kitchen table issues or things that just sound terribly bad, like encouraging a child to commit suicide, you know, you might be able to get some restrictions on that.

But the thing that will really shape how the tech industry has to behave is any checks on its ability to grow.

I'm not saying that it's futile.