Ben Horowitz told Biden officials that regulating AI means regulating math
“I think we have a hundred and fifty thousand people per day dying on Earth, and I think AI is probably the best chance we have at stopping that.”
scary at times to think about. I think we have a hundred and fifty thousand people per day dying on Earth, and I think AI is probably the best chance we have at stopping that. Whoever is building the AI has a lot of control about how society is gonna work. So I do think there's real danger
along these lines of attempting to pause it. When are we gonna have discovery by an AI
of something as significant as relativity on its own? I don't think it's the next twelve months. I I think it's
Now that's the moon shot, ladies and gentlemen.
Ben Horowitz argued directly to the Biden administration officials that regulating AI means regulating math. Their response?
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Ben Horowitz argues that pausing AI development is dangerous because AI could be our best chance at reducing the 150,000 daily deaths on Earth. He discusses when AI might make discoveries as significant as relativity and reveals how he directly challenged Biden administration officials by framing AI regulation as regulating mathematics itself.
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This captures a high-stakes policy debate with a provocative framing that challenges conventional AI regulation approaches.
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