Tripp Mickle

And that was a bit of a wake up call for everybody in terms of making people recognize that developing this technology without any rules also has risks for the companies who are pushing it forward.

And so what you've seen in the wake of the executive order

And we're just talking like days, Michael, like this is just a few days later.

OpenAI came out on Wednesday with its own post encouraging Congress to sit down and adopt more rigorous rules for the artificial intelligence industry.

Now, this is a company that has largely opposed rules up until this point.

And that to me just speaks to the type of shift that's taking place right now.

It's a great question.

As somebody who covers the industry, it's hard to figure out at times where Silicon Valley is going on this.

And OpenAI is a good example.

It's pushing forward this notion that democratic governments, not private companies alone,

should determine the rules and safeguards for the technology that it's developing.

At the same time, one of its founders, Greg Brockman, is spending money to try to ensure that the people being elected to public office support a relatively hands-off approach, if not a totally hands-off approach, to artificial intelligence.

given the paralysis on Capitol Hill, I think that's the right way of looking at this, that there needs to be not just a mythos that isn't released publicly, but there needs to be a mythos that has been released and the lights need to go out in New York City or something like that, right?

Maybe that's what moves the ball forward on this.

At the same time though, talking about this, I can't help but think that here we are in what,

15 years into the social media revolution that Facebook brought about, we've been dealing with tremendous polarization as a consequence of that.

There have been mental health issues for young people.

There have been concerns about child sexual abuse material.

And there's not been a single rule written, right?

That segment of the tech industry remains unregulated.