Saikat Chakrabarti

Right.

And it's a technology that fundamentally was trained off of the sum product of human labor, of the things we produce.

That's how these LLMs get trained.

So I believe that we should have an ownership stake of it on it.

Right.

We should we as a people, democracy should be able to determine the future of our country, not just a few tech oligarchs.

And that is a message that I think the vast majority of people agree with, Democrat and Republican.

Yeah, I honestly don't understand how you go down that route.

I mean, I didn't come from money.

I grew up middle class in Texas going to public schools, and my parents, frankly, grew up quite poor.

They were from India, and my dad was a refugee during partition in India, which was a terrible event where they cut the country up along religious lines.

So he grew up with his family at 12, this tiny one bedroom apartment, often having no idea where his next meal would come from.

But he came to this country with literally $8 in his pocket, was able to achieve the American dream, got a job and a single income, got me that middle class life.

So when I came out of San Francisco, as you mentioned, I worked in Silicon Valley.

I was an early engineer at Stripe.

I was the second engineer there.

And just because I was in the right place at the right time, I ended up making a lot of money from that.

and that was a radicalizing experience because i don't come from money and i got this insight into just how inequality works in our society where the rich can keep getting richer without ever lifting a finger while everybody else just struggles to hang on and yeah i mean i worked hard at stripe i'm proud of the stuff i did but i didn't work harder than a teacher or a nurse or the janitors cleaning our offices did every single day i just hit the startup lottery

And in an economy like that, where either you hit the lottery and you can have it all, or you'll never be able to afford a home or a secure retirement, that's fundamentally broken.

That is a broken system.