Reid Hoffman

And all of this stuff is going to help.

Or another way of putting it is anything that has any computational units at all is going to become much more intelligent.

All of these things come from this scale compute learning revolution.

And that was...

Probably 2014, 2015 was when I really kind of got the, you know, the vision hit me fully.

And I went to my partners at Greylock and I said, hey, look, I think we're going to still make a bunch of money doing this crypto stuff.

I did a few things in Bitcoin and other things.

So keep doing it.

But I'm going to focus entirely on AI because I think AI is going to be the thing that –

is going to be the next wave and I want to start working on it right now.

Well, I'm familiar with every single pessimist argument, and the frequent thing is something along the lines, let's take the most extreme.

Can you guarantee me

that we won't deliberately or accidentally create terminators, right?

And you go, no, I can't guarantee.

Oh, then it's really bad.

And we should have a cautionary principle.

And you're like, well, that's if you thought that the only thing here was creation of terminators or not.

So like, for example, take, this is called existential risk.

Let's take existential risk.

Existential risk is a basket.