This is precisely what's so terrifying about the trajectory that a lot of Silicon Valley investors are trying to put us on now,

where they've started to realize that, you know, maybe we don't need these workers to get so much income.

Maybe we can build machines that replace them.

Honestly, the inspiration for this, you have a little bit to do with it, because it started

becoming, Steve, it started becoming very striking to me that there was an incredibly broad

support in America for these ideas.

For a long time, I used to call this the Bernie-Tabannon coalition saying, hey,

you know, yeah, curing cancer is great. We can do a lot of wonderful things with AI to strengthen

our economy and strengthen our country and strengthen our military. But let's make sure

that it's in the service of human beings, not in the service of some machines. President Trump and President Xi will be coming together at a summit.

I was surprised and delighted to see, apparently, that as part of their agenda, there's going to be some discussion of AI safety.

The biggest risk is exactly the inevitability narrative, right? If someone invades your country,

what's the first thing they're going to tell you? Oh, don't fight. It's inevitable that you're

screwed, you know, so don't try to do anything about it. So are you surprised that some AI

lobbyists are rolling out the exact same narrative here? When we're talking about losing

control over AI, we're not talking about the chatbots.

We're talking about AI agents.

We're talking about systems that are autonomous.

I think in 10 years, we will, if things go well, we will look back at this moment and we will view it as a moment of kind of collective insanity and be like, wow, can you believe that we were ever doing that?

That we were racing to build this technology that we knew had a massive chance of replacing us and was going to completely disrupt our society and all the other ways that you mentioned.

One of the main reasons I am optimistic is because in my time in the field, I've seen this go from a complete, you know,

issue that nobody was talking about to being more and more understood and accepted by not

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