Sriram Krishnan

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The a16z Show · Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI's Biggest Week Yet · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't know whether the government has a real role in this.

Whether RSI is real or not, where you are on the exponent is a much debated topic.

You know, I've heard many, many schools of thought where, you know, they believe you're going to have automated AI researchers in a couple of years.

But then there are others who think, well, there are fundamental improvements that you cannot crack.

And yes, you're going to see improvements from models being able to train other models, but the exponent is going to be a lot more gradual.

rather than a very, very, you know, steep curve.

So I think when I was in government, for me or for David, the entire focus was how do we have a fantastic ecosystem where there are people competing to build products, you know, you're pushing innovation as fast as possible.

And then when there are credible risks, you know, making sure when they appear, making sure you tackle them.

So for example, with cyber, when you have a credible threat, when you know these models are capable of, for example, generating exploits in the latest firmware or the latest operating system, how do you then go tackle it?

So when somebody gives me this question, I sometimes find it very theoretical, and I often find it a lot more useful to break it down into, okay,

one, how do we make sure we have a bunch of competing choices?

Two, is what do we know to be credible?

And, you know, how do we actually particularly tackle that?

I think there are very credible threats on cyber, on biological advances, a couple of other topics.

And I think

There are definitely efforts to try and tackle just those.

And then, you know, and I think the final part I would say is that in a lot of ways, I'm a big believer in using AI to help.

So often, for example, the answer to helping with cyber is if you have, you know, using more AI to go scan your code base and making your code base more secure.

So very often, I think, like, how do we then deploy to actually meet these threats as we go along?

I think at the end of the day, if you kind of bring it back to very business-first principles, if you're providing a product of value, capitalism will find a way to make the supply chain work for you.

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