I'm John Bachelor with Kevin Fraser, who's writing about AI right now, and the future is Western

Union goes this way, Big Pharma goes that way, and what we know to be true is competition

works, hence the United States of America. But regulatory capture is a product of a powerful

and rich state. We have one. So there are things the state can do,

and by the state I don't mean just Washington. I mean individual capitals, individual governances.

The first is make sure that the public is well informed, well educated about what we're debating.

How will that help, Kevin?

So I like to go back to a marketplace in which we identify consumers being quite savvy.

And an example here is the car market.

When you are buying a new car, the average American spends at least

15 hours sorting through the best option. And they can find readily available information about

the crash safety rating, the price of the car, how many seats there are, the quality of the tires,

different optionalities such as four-wheel drive, and then they make an

informed decision. And by virtue of knowing what they want, as well as what's available,

that sustains an incredible diversity of different car models, right? We see so many new and

creative cars being deployed on our streets on a day-to-day basis. And that's what we need in the AI context.

A more informed AI consumer can think through what's the model that's right for me, rather than

lamenting the fact that there's not one model that does everything for everyone. That's never going to

happen, nor should we want it to happen because we want that sort of competition.

Again, the public can contribute to this by making the infrastructure available to everyone

and not being owned by the big companies. But that's happening right now. You'd have to say that

Starlink has already made a move in that direction. Starlink, Rock, SpaceX, IPO.

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