Qasar Younis

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The a16z Show · Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied Intuition · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

I think if you feel like, I think the obvious abundance that comes from self-driving trucks, self-driving cars, and the fact that people don't die, which is amazing, but then you also get this efficiency of cheaper energy, et cetera.

If all those things don't still satisfy your fear, you as a person, it's up to your responsibility to really learn about that technology.

You can't just say, well, I'm afraid of it and my reaction is shut it down.

That's not that simple.

And I don't say this just to say that we're competing with the Chinese, but there's a Confucian saying about Confucius is no hand can block the sun.

And the sun is technological progress.

And if we as a society don't embrace technological progress, we will be left behind.

Somebody else is going to do it.

And if it's not the Chinese, who knows?

Maybe it's the Uzbeks or, you know, it's another country that is recognizing, hey, my citizens are suffering and I'm going to use this technology to remove them.

It is, honestly, it's because we're living in such a great society that we can have these, like, I would say stupid conversations.

Like, there still are people who don't, can't get food.

And someone will immediately quip, if they were debating me, they would say, well, there's plenty of food, it's the capitalist system that doesn't, no, no, no, let's be very specific.

There's plenty of food, but getting that food to those people is difficult.

So that means we should let robots get that food to them faster.

That's just, that's just how it is.

So I think I'm, and I think like we, we, we as like technologists, I think sometimes we, you know, it's I think an inclination just to say, leave these people behind.

I think you have to bring them along.

You have to explain it to them.

But we also have to treat folks like adults and say,

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