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Tracy Alloway

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And we did an episode with the CTO of Goldman Sachs recently, and we asked him, like, Goldman Sachs is a highly regulated bank.

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When you have bank supervisors who go in and want to understand your AI system,

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what are they actually understanding?

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Do they understand the underlying code that's driving the algorithm?

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And the answer was, well, no, not really.

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You can't expect them to understand all that stuff.

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It's more about having the right controls in place that prevent the algo from running amok.

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And so my question is with AI,

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where we have a lot of experts, highly paid experts and engineers in the private sector developing all this new stuff versus a shrinking body of government officials.

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What should our expectation be about how much they understand this technology?

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Interesting.

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Why do you think that hasn't happened yet or governments haven't stepped in faster?

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Because I do think AI is kind of unusual in the sense that, you know, you have people like Sam Altman who will say very publicly in interviews like, yeah, this creates a lot of negative externalities and society is going to have to figure out how to deal with this and

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Governments are going to have to figure out how to actually best deploy this technology.

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OpenAI published a big industrial policy document, which, again, I think is kind of unusual to previous technological developments.

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And yet governments seem kind of slow.

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Mariana Mazzucato Thinks We Need More Moonshots

I don't want to generalize too much, but many governments seem kind of slow to get in and really start shaping what they want to do with AI.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, Joe, I was thinking about this specifically related to health care recently because I've seen a bunch of startups that are saying they're going to simplify the billing process for hospitals.

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And then you also know that there are a bunch of insurance companies that are also using AI.