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Well, there's also an industrial complex according to some folks that are backing this. If you've heard of
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effective altruism, that was like this uh movement of a bunch of I don't know, I guess they consider themselves
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intellectual sacks and they uh were kind of backing a large swath of organizations that I guess we would call
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in the industry astroturfing or what do they call it when you make so many of these organizations that they're not
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real in politics and flooding the zone perhaps. So if you were to look at this article here, Nick, I think you have the
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AI existential risk um industrial complex graphic there. It seems like a group of people according to this
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article have backed to the tune of 1.6 billion a large number of organizations to scare the be Jesus out of everybody
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and make YouTube videos, Tik Toks, and they've they've made a map of it. There's some key takeaways here from
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that article where it says here that it's an inflated ecosystem. There's a great deal of redundancy. Same names,
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acronyms, logos with only minor changes. Same extreme talking points. Same group
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of people just with different titles. Same funding source. There's a funding source called Open Philanthropy which
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was funded by Dustin Moskovitz who is one of the Facebook billionaires. Chimath, you worked with him, right? I
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mean he was wasn't he like Zuck's roommate at Harvard or something and one of the first engineers made a lot of
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money. So he funded this he he's an EA and he funded this group called Open Philanthropy which then has become the
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feeder for essentially all these other organizations which are almost different fronts to basically the same underlying
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EA ideology. And what's interesting is that the guy who set this up for Dustin, Holden
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Carnowski, who is a major effective altruist and was doing out all the money, he's married to Daario's sister
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and she she's I guess associated with EA and she was one of the co-founders of Anthropic. So these are not
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coincidences. I mean the reality is there's a very specific ideological and political agenda here. Now what is that
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agenda? It's basically global AI governance if you will. They want AI to be highly regulated but not just at the
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level of the nation state but let's say internationally supernationally to well if you just do a quick search on
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global compute governance it'll tell you what the key aspects are. So number one
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they want regulation of computational resources. This includes access to GPUs. They want AI safety and security
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regulation. They want international, you call them, globalist agreements. And they want ethical and
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societal considerations or policy built into this. Now, what does that sound like? That sounds a lot to me like what
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the Biden administration was pursuing. Specifically, we had that Biden executive order on AI, which was 100
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pages of Bernson regulation that was designed to promote AI safety, but had all these DEI requirements. So you know
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it led to woke AI. You remember when Google launched Black George Washington so forth they had the Biden diffusion
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rule which created this global licensing framework to sell GPUs all over the world. So extreme restrictions on
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proliferation of servers of computing power. They created what's called the AI safety institute and they again fostered
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these international AI summits. So if you actually look at what the Biden administration was tangibly doing in
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terms of policy and you look at what EA's agenda is with respect to global compute governance, they were pushing
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hard on these fronts. And now if you look at the level of personnel, there were very very
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powerful Biden staffers who now all work in anthropic. So probably the most powerful Biden staffer on AI over the
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past four years was a lawyer named Tarun Chabra and he now works at Anthropic for
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Daario. Elizabeth Kelly who was the founding director of the AI safety institute in the government now works at
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Anthropic. Like I mentioned Daario's sister is married to Holder and Karnowski who doss out all the money to
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these EA organizations. So if you were to do something like create a network map, you would see very quickly that
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there's three key nodes here. There's the effective altruist movement of which Sam Bankman Freed's most notable member,
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but which I think Dustin Mos is now the main funer. There's the Biden administration and like the key staffers
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and then you've got anthropic and it's a very tightly wound network. Now why does
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this matter? Let's get Yeah. Also the goals I think is Yes. Well, the the goal, like I said, is is global compute
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governance. It's basically establishing national and then international regulations of AI. Now, but they would
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claim, let's just pause here for a minute. They would claim the reason they're doing it. And so, we we'll we'll
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save if we believe this or not, but they are concerned about job destruction in the short term. They're also concerned
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as science fiction as it is that the AI when we get to like a sort of generalized super intelligence is going
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to kill humanity that this is a nonzero chance. Elon has said this before. They've sort of taken it to a almost
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like a certainty. Yes, we're going to have so many of these general intelligences that they only believe
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that when they're raising money. Well, that's what I'm sort of getting at. Like, so I think they believe it all the
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time, but maybe maybe the press releases are time for for the fun building. But let me let me answer that. So, right.
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Yeah. Yeah. Look, I mean, it is a great product. Cloud kicks us. I'm more interested in the political dimension of
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this. I'm not bashing a specific product or company, but look, I think that there
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is some nonzero risk of AI growing into a super intelligence that's beyond our control. They have a name for that. They
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call it X-risk or existential risk. I think it's very hard to put a percentage on that. I'm willing to acknowledge that
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is a risk. You know, I think about that all the time and I do think we should be
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concerned about it. But there's two problems I think with this approach. Number one is X-Risk is not the only
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kind of risk. I would say that China winning the AI race is a huge risk. I don't really want to see a CCP AI
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running the world. And if you hobble our own innovation, our own AI efforts in the name of stomping out every
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possibility of X-risk, then you probably end up losing the AI race to China because they're not going to abide by
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those same regulations. So again, you can't optimize for solving only one risk while ignoring all the others. And I
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would say the risk of China winning the AI race is, you know, it might be like 30%. Whereas I think X risk is probably
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a much lower percentage. So there are there are other risks to to worry about. And I I do think that they are
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single-mindedly focused on scaring people with some of these headlines around first it was the boweapons, then
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it was the super intelligence, now it's the job loss. And I think it's a tried andrue tactic of people who want to give
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more power to the government to scare the population, right? Because if you can scare the population and make them
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fearful, then they will cry out for the government to solve the problem. And that's what I see here is that you've
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got this elaborate network of front organizations which are all motivated by this EA ideology. They're funded by a
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hardcore leftist. And by the way, I became aware of Dustin's politics because of the Chase Bodin recall. I
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found out that he was a big funer of Chase Bodin. Remember this? Yeah. Dustin Mosimus and Carrie Tuna, his wife.
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Also, Reed Hastings just joined the board of of Anthropic. remember when he back in 2016 to tried to drive Peter
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Teal off of the board of Facebook for supporting Trump. So, you know, these are like committed leftists. They're
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Trump haters. But the point is that these are people who fundamentally believe in empowering government to the
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maximum extent, more government, and empowering government to the maximum extent. Now, my problem with that is I
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actually think that probably the single greatest dystopian risk associated with AI is the risk that government uses it
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to control all of us. To me, like you end up in some sort of Orwellian future where AI is controlled by the
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government. And out of all the risks we've talked about, that's the only one for which I've seen tangible evidence.
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So in other words, if you go back to last year when we had the whole woke AI, there was plenty of evidence that the
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people who were creating these products were infusing their left-wing or woke values into the product to the point
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where it was lying to all of us and it was rewriting history. And there was plenty of evidence that the Biden EO was
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trying to enshrine that idea. Was basically trying to require DEI be infused into AI models. and it wanted to
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anoint two or three winners in this AI race. So, I'm quite convinced that prior to Donald Trump winning the election, we
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were on a path of global compute governance where two or three big AI companies were going to be anointed as
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the winners. And the quid proquo is that they were going to infuse those AI models with woke values. And there was
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plenty of evidence for that. You look at the policies, you look at the models. This was not a theoretical concern. This
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was real. And I think the only reason why we've moved off of that trajectory is because of Trump's election.