A large number of departures from XAI, from the founding team.

It wasn't clear to me whether they were fired or whether they left, you know, because they all leave on good terms.

I don't know the answer to that question. I will say that it's...

Recursive self-improvement RSI is the real trigger for the singularity, and it happened a while ago.

We're exiting the Industrial Age permanently as we're talking.

We're obviously going into a new world.

Like with the Industrial Revolution, I think it's scary at times to think about.

I think we have 150,000 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 going to work. So I do think

there's real danger along these lines of attempting to pause. When are we going to have discovery

by an AI of something as significant as relativity on its own.

I don't think it's the next 12 months. I think it's...

Now that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

Ben Horowitz argued directly to the Biden administration officials that regulating AI means regulating math.

Their response?

We did that in the 40s with nuclear physics, and some of it is still classified today.

Horowitz sees the real danger, not an AI moving too fast, but in U.S. regulations slowing progress

enough that China ends up leading how AI reshapes society.

The Biden administration's final AI chip export controls

required government approval for GPU sales to most of the world.

This conversation previously aired on Peter Diamandis' Moonshot's podcast

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