Robbie Starbuck

Uh-oh.

Are we muted, Lindsay?

Thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

And as everybody knows, I was a massive fan of Scott Adams.

So I'm glad you guys have carried this on to have his legacy continue.

In terms of the case with Google, you know,

i feel like there's not very many people who are in a position where they could afford to fight google and have the platform to be able to battle the immense pr advantage that they have right and so i felt like it wasn't really a choice i had to fight this i mean not only to correct the damage that it's done to me and the you know safety issues it's created for me but

Beyond that, you know, just the fact that I see how incredibly dangerous it will be if we allow AI to lie with impunity, to defame people, to essentially cross the boundary of what I believe should be the first principle of AI.

AI should never be able to harm humans.

That should be the first principle built into any AI that there is, whether it is a chatbot or it moves on to being fused in with robotics.

Whatever it is, that needs to be the first principle.

AI cannot harm humans.

So when this happened to me, my initial impulse was like, hey, let's try to solve this with Google.

And that's what I tried to do.

I tried to go to Google, had the best intentions of just getting this fixed for everybody, and let's make sure there's a process in place so that if anything like this ever happens, it is super simple for somebody to be able to correct it.

And unfortunately, that was not our experience.

In fact, the first person that we really got deep into conversations with at Google, we had essentially asked for this to be fixed.

I'm going to fast forward a little bit months later, I check in and I say, hey, you know, where are we at with this?

And they responded, I'm sorry, Robbie, I'm actually resigning and we couldn't get anything done essentially to correct this.