Reid Hoffman

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This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is Why Reid Hoffman Doesn’t Fear Artificial Intelligence · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

I was talking to Ezra Klein about this back East a week or two ago.

And he said, it'd be good to mix in, I'm paraphrasing him and I don't want to talk out of school, some of the good stuff along the lines of what you now are sprinkling in.

And you're investing very directly just in the area that we, you talked about 20, 30 years ago, people were focused on the issue of breakthroughs in medicine.

breakthroughs, I mean, I can live longer, healthier life.

So I mean, where are we?

Let's talk, let's now paint a more positive picture of what AI can do for good for society, not just for Elon.

So he's worth $6 trillion by the time my daughter graduates college.

Yes, exactly.

So Manas AI, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Ujwal Singh and I have co-founded.

And the idea is to create a drug discovery factory with AI.

And it's the best shot I think we have seen ever in human history for doing a lot of cancer curing and a bunch of other things too.

Because AI, it's like a search problem.

Biology is more complicated than all of this other shit.

It's like, well, there's more moves in Go than there's atoms in the universe.

And yeah, Go is a child simplicity tool relative biology.

But now that we've got scale compute, it's like, okay, what's the thing that is going wrong with leukemia?

Can we find something that allows us to monitor stuff early, allows us to figure out what might be going wrong, and something that might be an easy therapeutic that might be as simple as an injection or a pill because you create a small molecule, an antibody, a protein, et cetera, that combined with leukemia

the thing that's going wrong and disable the bad thing and not have serious toxic side effects.

That's a difficult search problem.

And right now what we have is we have, and by the way, I think we'll continue to have genius clinician, PhDs, researchers doing stuff.

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