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Ben Horowitz on where AI regulation should actually focus: "The model is a model. It's a mathematical model. It predicts things. It's not a sentient being." "If you ban the technology, or infringe people's ability to do mathematics... that has hundred-year implications." "Don't regulate math. Regulate the applications of... show more

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