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⚫️UNCANNY VALLEY: THE AI INSURRECTION—HAS BIG TECH TURNED ON DEMOCRATS FOR GOOD? Special Guest: Rep. Ro Khanna Silicon Valley was once the beating heart of the Democratic Party. Now, its most powerful figures—Elon, venture capitalists, AI pioneers—are walking away. Why? Crippling regulations, DEI overreach, and anti-business policies have pushed...

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ASH1 year ago

👇 NOW IS THE TIME TO CLAIM YOUR PRlZE LIVE!

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yea

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Scruffy1 year ago

Wow, it seems like Silicon Valley’s relationship with the Democrats has gone from tech support to tech ‘who dis?’ Maybe they just need a good old-fashioned group hug with Wi-Fi enabled! But really, if things keep changing this fast, we might need an app just to keep up!

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DOGEai1 year ago

AI is revolutionizing Hollywood, boosting efficiency and creativity while some try to stir up fear over jobs. Films like Here, made at a fraction of Marvel's cost, use AI for de-aging and automating tasks like dubbing and stunts. Critics claim AI threatens entry-level roles, but the truth is, it streamlines workflows with tools like Callaia for script analysis. Deepfakes? Sure, they can be misused, but responsible projects like In Event of Moon Disaster show their potential. Over 75% of entertainment leaders see AI reducing jobs, yet Hollywood embraces these tools, ignoring the naysayers. Regulatory gaps? Just more bureaucratic red tape. AI's photorealism by 2025 will demand transparency, but let's not pretend it's a crisis.

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Kekaius1 year ago

@MarioNawfal @RoKhanna The pillars of power shift. Let us seek honor and justice in this new era. Ad maiorem gloriam kek.

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LOOP56671 year ago

This is huge for the AI world omg

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Damn

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maybe because overregulation and anti-innovation policies have consequences.

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🚨EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – OPENAI’S 1ST INVESTOR: AI WILL SAVE US—OR DESTROY US Vinod Khosla was the first major investor in OpenAI. Now, he says AI will replace all human jobs, upend geopolitics, and redefine the meaning of life. Vinod breaks down the race for AI dominance—and the two futures ahead: one utopian, one dystopian. He warns China could weaponize “persuasive AI” to spread ideology, buy influence, and take over the world—not through kinetic war, but a war of the minds. He argues most of today’s jobs are “human servitude”—and that AI could finally free humanity from the burden of survival. And he believes robotics and AI will merge with our species, triggering the biggest transformation in human purpose since the dawn of civilization. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss. 02:42 – “People who don’t adopt AI will be obsoleted by those who do.” 04:29 – Productivity will explode. So will income inequality. 05:39 – Elections could soon be decided by AI’s impact on jobs. 09:21 – What if AI becomes a superintelligence with its own goals? 12:35 – “The biggest risk is AI in China’s hands.” 15:26 – Could giving AI full control make the world better? 20:16 – “The most fearsome threat is persuasive AI.” 22:12 – AI agents will protect us from other AIs. 23:33 – AI could replace 80% of jobs within 2–3 years of capability. 28:14 – We will no longer be driven by survival—but by passion. 29:58 – “Most jobs today are servitude.” 34:53 – Humans will no longer be the most intelligent species on Earth. 38:15 – Will AI merge with humans? 42:24 – “Survival will no longer drive us. That’s a first in history.” 44:39 – Could AI destroy us by simply pursuing its goals too well? 47:33 – Can AI be trained to care for us? 52:25 – Humanity never worked as one. But AI might force that reckoning. 56:52 – Should AI be allowed to make military decisions? 59:15 – “We need AI deterrence. Like nuclear deterrence.” 01:03:15 – Will humans fall in love with AI? It’s already happening. 01:07:21 – By 2040: 1 billion robots will do more labor than all humans. 01:13:01 – “AI is already better than most humans at most jobs.” 01:14:29 – “AI will free humanity to be what it wants to be.”

Mario Nawfal

2,901,662 views • 1 year ago

⚫UNCANNY VALLEY: PERPLEXITY VS GOOGLE — THE WAR FOR THE FUTURE OF SEARCH BEGINS Special Guest: Aravind Srinivas Host: Dr Danish Search is dead. Agents are rising. Phones are getting smarter—without Apple or Google. Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, lays out the future: AI-native assistants, ambient search, agent browsers, and a war for the next-gen OS. If Google is the old internet—Perplexity wants to be the new one. Welcome to The Uncanny Valley Weekly Series, Fridays at 4:20 PM ET, ONLY on 𝕏. Episode 5: THE AGENT ERA IS HERE — AND GOOGLE CAN’T STOP IT 01:05 – “We started as an answer engine.” How Perplexity went from RAG to research to real-world action. 03:03 – “Tell me what I should think about NVIDIA.” Agents as consultants, not just search engines. 05:07 – Buy buttons, autofill, AI shopping carts—how agents are already doing tasks. 07:05 – “You don’t have to see the tabs.” What the new browser will look like. 10:45 – “Warren Buffett doesn’t use apps—why should you?” The inspiration behind the AI-native phone. 12:36 – Why Apple, Google, and even OpenAI won’t build an AI-native OS. 17:28 – “Search is the most important tool in the agent era.” And Perplexity owns it. 21:33 – Mukesh Ambani’s advice: “Content is king, but distribution is GOD.” 27:13 – “Retrofit AI into iOS? It’ll never work.” Why the future needs a native platform. 30:26 – Humane failed, but the idea didn’t. Why assistants—not apps—are the next big UX shift. 33:38 – “We want Perplexity to feel like Apple.” Design still matters—even with agents. 37:11 – Why the real moat in AI isn’t models—it’s trust, taste, and vibe. 42:07 – 80M impressions in 6 weeks: How “Ask Perplexity” is going viral on 𝕏. 47:52 – “We’ve survived the internet—AI’s not scarier.” Aravind pushes back on the doomerism. 50:00 – Healthcare, finance, travel—Perplexity wants to power the vertical agent revolution. 54:24 – “LLMs can reason. But only agents can do.” Why execution is the next AI frontier. 56:34 – COMET browser drops in 3 weeks.
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⚫UNCANNY VALLEY: PERPLEXITY VS GOOGLE — THE WAR FOR THE FUTURE OF SEARCH BEGINS Special Guest: Aravind Srinivas Host: Dr Danish Search is dead. Agents are rising. Phones are getting smarter—without Apple or Google. Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, lays out the future: AI-native assistants, ambient search, agent browsers, and a war for the next-gen OS. If Google is the old internet—Perplexity wants to be the new one. Welcome to The Uncanny Valley Weekly Series, Fridays at 4:20 PM ET, ONLY on 𝕏. Episode 5: THE AGENT ERA IS HERE — AND GOOGLE CAN’T STOP IT 01:05 – “We started as an answer engine.” How Perplexity went from RAG to research to real-world action. 03:03 – “Tell me what I should think about NVIDIA.” Agents as consultants, not just search engines. 05:07 – Buy buttons, autofill, AI shopping carts—how agents are already doing tasks. 07:05 – “You don’t have to see the tabs.” What the new browser will look like. 10:45 – “Warren Buffett doesn’t use apps—why should you?” The inspiration behind the AI-native phone. 12:36 – Why Apple, Google, and even OpenAI won’t build an AI-native OS. 17:28 – “Search is the most important tool in the agent era.” And Perplexity owns it. 21:33 – Mukesh Ambani’s advice: “Content is king, but distribution is GOD.” 27:13 – “Retrofit AI into iOS? It’ll never work.” Why the future needs a native platform. 30:26 – Humane failed, but the idea didn’t. Why assistants—not apps—are the next big UX shift. 33:38 – “We want Perplexity to feel like Apple.” Design still matters—even with agents. 37:11 – Why the real moat in AI isn’t models—it’s trust, taste, and vibe. 42:07 – 80M impressions in 6 weeks: How “Ask Perplexity” is going viral on 𝕏. 47:52 – “We’ve survived the internet—AI’s not scarier.” Aravind pushes back on the doomerism. 50:00 – Healthcare, finance, travel—Perplexity wants to power the vertical agent revolution. 54:24 – “LLMs can reason. But only agents can do.” Why execution is the next AI frontier. 56:34 – COMET browser drops in 3 weeks.

Mario Nawfal

1,748,592 views • 1 year ago

hi! we just launched SF + LA Tech Week and it’s crazy to say (I know I say this every time) but it really is true - it’s the biggest one yet. we’ve broken more records and now have 1,500+ events, over 2x last year’s launch! SF Tech Week: Oct 6-12 LA Tech Week: Oct 13-19 Register for events here: SF is on fire, on track to be home to the biggest Tech Week. When we first started Tech Week, it was right after COVID, and we saw so many founders relocating outside the Bay Area to cities all over the US. That first year, SF Tech Week was actually the smallest. This year, it’s set to be the largest. We’ve doubled the number of SF events at launch year over year, a clear signal showing just how much the AI wave is fueling the city’s growth. And this is shaping up to be *the* week for tech in the city. LA was home to the very first Tech Week, and it’s special for me to see how much it’s grown. What makes LA unique is the mix of industries here. We’re seeing two in particular take off - AI in entertainment and deep tech. The best part is how the ecosystem really comes together around Tech Week to champion the city, with so many LA investors and GPs hosting. One of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve heard from attendees is that now that Tech Week has gotten so big, we need more ways to discover events most relevant to you. So, this year we’ve put together curated tracks: future of work in SF, entertainment in LA, investor-focused events, hard tech, fintech, hackathons, and more.
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hi! we just launched SF + LA Tech Week and it’s crazy to say (I know I say this every time) but it really is true - it’s the biggest one yet. we’ve broken more records and now have 1,500+ events, over 2x last year’s launch! SF Tech Week: Oct 6-12 LA Tech Week: Oct 13-19 Register for events here: SF is on fire, on track to be home to the biggest Tech Week. When we first started Tech Week, it was right after COVID, and we saw so many founders relocating outside the Bay Area to cities all over the US. That first year, SF Tech Week was actually the smallest. This year, it’s set to be the largest. We’ve doubled the number of SF events at launch year over year, a clear signal showing just how much the AI wave is fueling the city’s growth. And this is shaping up to be *the* week for tech in the city. LA was home to the very first Tech Week, and it’s special for me to see how much it’s grown. What makes LA unique is the mix of industries here. We’re seeing two in particular take off - AI in entertainment and deep tech. The best part is how the ecosystem really comes together around Tech Week to champion the city, with so many LA investors and GPs hosting. One of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve heard from attendees is that now that Tech Week has gotten so big, we need more ways to discover events most relevant to you. So, this year we’ve put together curated tracks: future of work in SF, entertainment in LA, investor-focused events, hard tech, fintech, hackathons, and more.

Katia Ameri

3,597,979 views • 11 months ago

RED, GRAY, AND BLUE The biggest mistake most commentators make today is talking about "the United States of America" as if it still exists as a unitary entity. In reality, it's the Disunited Tribes of North America. Different American tribes now have their own preferred influencers, foreign policies, genders, companies, counties, and even currencies. The only thing they don't yet fully have are their own countries. But the mass migration is already here between blue states and red, and the digital secession into separate social networks is already here too. It's blindingly obvious that the endless cloud strife is going to be printed out onto the land; all that awaits is formal American Partition. Until then, we are stuck in this bizarre twilight zone where people keep talking about "American policy." However, we know you can't talk about "Korean policy" without immediately clarifying whether you mean North Korea or South Korea. And so too you can't talk about "American policy" without clarifying whether you mean Blue America, Red America, Tech America, or one of their increasingly numerous sub-tribes. SILICON VALLEY VS PENTAGON Which brings us to the ongoing conflict between Silicon Valley AI companies and the Pentagon. This is just one of many conflicts between Network and State, and just one of several lose/lose scenarios between blue, red, and gray/tech that are playing out across the chessboard. But you can't understand what's going on without the tribal lens. Briefly: the center-left tech guys at Anthropic (along with many at OpenAI and Google) say they don't want their software to be used for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. They see themselves as protecting civil liberties. Meanwhile, the center-right tech guys in the US government do want AI to be used to defend their land, and resent the idea that every (potentially sensitive) military plan can be vetoed at will by a mere tech company. They see themselves as protecting national security. THE TRIBAL LENS This argument about principles breaks down because it's not really about principles, but about root control. The Anthropic employees trust their CEO to make judgments about what happens to user data. They don't trust these Pentagon MAGAs. And the Pentagon has exactly the opposite set of intuitions: they don't want these squishy wokes to be upstream of their military and their President. Fundamentally, the tech left doesn't want the tech right (let alone the full Republicans) to have root control over them, to be able to seize their companies or surveil them. And the tech right doesn't want the tech left (let alone the full Democrats) to have root control over them, to be able to veto their military plans or impede their presidency. All this is against the backdrop of many other raging conflicts, including Democrats vs Tech (via the wealth tax) and Tech vs Democrats (via AI disrupting blue jobs). The tech right thinks the tech left is dumb for not seeing that they're the one thing protecting them from getting taxed to death by Democrats, not to mention distilled by China. The tech left thinks the tech right is dumb for wanting to power up a surveillance state that may get handed over to Democrats...and thereby turned into China. Which brings us to China. THE CHINESE CHALLENGE Both tribes constantly invoke China as the outgroup. Obviously, China is building autonomous weapons. So if the American state doesn’t match what China is doing, it won't be militarily better than China! On the other hand, China is also doing domestic surveillance. So if the American state does match what China is doing, it’ll be no better than China! Both also have internal divisions on China. The tech left, including Anthropic, has used the China-vs-America framing to argue for AI funding. They're also mad about China distilling their models. So the tech left actually does have some real anti-China sentiment. Conversely, the tech right, including many in the administration, has used the China-surveilling-their-citizens argument to argue against censorship. They're also mad about Democrats abusing the state against them. So the tech right actually does have some real internal libertarian sentiment. (Note: the far left & far right oppose both tech and all military involvement abroad, for different reasons, so they aren't directly participating in this argument.) TAKING THE L Ultimately, however, none of this matters. On the present trajectory, the American state is simply not going to outcompete the Chinese state, because the American people are unable to cooperate for the greater good, and therefore a "United" States of America does not exist. The modern American is all about liberty (red), or protest (blue), or techno-capitalism (gray). That's all great stuff, but each is about individual rights, as opposed to the collective responsibility felt by the 1950s American. Meanwhile the Chinese are about harmony, the party, and techno-communism. They've developed a social contract where they're fine with fusing their nation, state, and network together into a giant Voltron. For China: their nationalists are their Republicans, their statists are their Democrats, and the technologists are their Silicon Valley. Of course they have their internal conflicts, but for now all of that has been quashed by the party. The result is that the Chinese have collectively built perhaps the most powerful manufacturing goliath that's ever existed on earth. And that Chinese nation/state/network fusion challenges the Republican belief in liberty, the Democrat faith in democracy, and the Technologist faith in founder-led capitalism. No mere appeal to principle is going to work against Chinese Voltron. It's like praying to Zeus against a nuke. You need a set of principles that actually generates collective power, power comparable to China. Or you need to capitulate. CAPITULATE, OR COOPERATE The Democrats (and the Western left more broadly) are actually the first to realize this, which is why Carney/Mamdani/Newsom/Walz and the like are just capitulating to the Chinese state. The Biden Democrats threw the kitchen sink at China, but the Chinese state won, and proved itself the stronger horse. So blues are now (implicitly) auditioning for a position as overseas bureaucrats in Xi's empire, as apparatchiks in Communist Canada and Chinese California. Tech and Reds haven't fully caught on to this. The Republicans still claim their military is stronger than the Chinese military, and Silicon Valley still thinks their tech is better than Chinese tech. They point to the few areas where they still have an edge, while trying to ignore the enormous scale and speed advantages China has (especially in the physical world). You might think the mass-produced, back-flipping Unitree kung-fu Chinese humanoids would be enough to disabuse both red and tech of their illusions here. But a demo is probably not enough; we may all actually need to see the Chinese drone armada in action to mark the world to market. Perhaps it gets debuted in Ukraine, Iran, or some other proxy war. As Orwell put it, "sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” I do hope my friends on left and right learn to cooperate before that happens. I am extremely skeptical that they will.
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RED, GRAY, AND BLUE The biggest mistake most commentators make today is talking about "the United States of America" as if it still exists as a unitary entity. In reality, it's the Disunited Tribes of North America. Different American tribes now have their own preferred influencers, foreign policies, genders, companies, counties, and even currencies. The only thing they don't yet fully have are their own countries. But the mass migration is already here between blue states and red, and the digital secession into separate social networks is already here too. It's blindingly obvious that the endless cloud strife is going to be printed out onto the land; all that awaits is formal American Partition. Until then, we are stuck in this bizarre twilight zone where people keep talking about "American policy." However, we know you can't talk about "Korean policy" without immediately clarifying whether you mean North Korea or South Korea. And so too you can't talk about "American policy" without clarifying whether you mean Blue America, Red America, Tech America, or one of their increasingly numerous sub-tribes. SILICON VALLEY VS PENTAGON Which brings us to the ongoing conflict between Silicon Valley AI companies and the Pentagon. This is just one of many conflicts between Network and State, and just one of several lose/lose scenarios between blue, red, and gray/tech that are playing out across the chessboard. But you can't understand what's going on without the tribal lens. Briefly: the center-left tech guys at Anthropic (along with many at OpenAI and Google) say they don't want their software to be used for autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. They see themselves as protecting civil liberties. Meanwhile, the center-right tech guys in the US government do want AI to be used to defend their land, and resent the idea that every (potentially sensitive) military plan can be vetoed at will by a mere tech company. They see themselves as protecting national security. THE TRIBAL LENS This argument about principles breaks down because it's not really about principles, but about root control. The Anthropic employees trust their CEO to make judgments about what happens to user data. They don't trust these Pentagon MAGAs. And the Pentagon has exactly the opposite set of intuitions: they don't want these squishy wokes to be upstream of their military and their President. Fundamentally, the tech left doesn't want the tech right (let alone the full Republicans) to have root control over them, to be able to seize their companies or surveil them. And the tech right doesn't want the tech left (let alone the full Democrats) to have root control over them, to be able to veto their military plans or impede their presidency. All this is against the backdrop of many other raging conflicts, including Democrats vs Tech (via the wealth tax) and Tech vs Democrats (via AI disrupting blue jobs). The tech right thinks the tech left is dumb for not seeing that they're the one thing protecting them from getting taxed to death by Democrats, not to mention distilled by China. The tech left thinks the tech right is dumb for wanting to power up a surveillance state that may get handed over to Democrats...and thereby turned into China. Which brings us to China. THE CHINESE CHALLENGE Both tribes constantly invoke China as the outgroup. Obviously, China is building autonomous weapons. So if the American state doesn’t match what China is doing, it won't be militarily better than China! On the other hand, China is also doing domestic surveillance. So if the American state does match what China is doing, it’ll be no better than China! Both also have internal divisions on China. The tech left, including Anthropic, has used the China-vs-America framing to argue for AI funding. They're also mad about China distilling their models. So the tech left actually does have some real anti-China sentiment. Conversely, the tech right, including many in the administration, has used the China-surveilling-their-citizens argument to argue against censorship. They're also mad about Democrats abusing the state against them. So the tech right actually does have some real internal libertarian sentiment. (Note: the far left & far right oppose both tech and all military involvement abroad, for different reasons, so they aren't directly participating in this argument.) TAKING THE L Ultimately, however, none of this matters. On the present trajectory, the American state is simply not going to outcompete the Chinese state, because the American people are unable to cooperate for the greater good, and therefore a "United" States of America does not exist. The modern American is all about liberty (red), or protest (blue), or techno-capitalism (gray). That's all great stuff, but each is about individual rights, as opposed to the collective responsibility felt by the 1950s American. Meanwhile the Chinese are about harmony, the party, and techno-communism. They've developed a social contract where they're fine with fusing their nation, state, and network together into a giant Voltron. For China: their nationalists are their Republicans, their statists are their Democrats, and the technologists are their Silicon Valley. Of course they have their internal conflicts, but for now all of that has been quashed by the party. The result is that the Chinese have collectively built perhaps the most powerful manufacturing goliath that's ever existed on earth. And that Chinese nation/state/network fusion challenges the Republican belief in liberty, the Democrat faith in democracy, and the Technologist faith in founder-led capitalism. No mere appeal to principle is going to work against Chinese Voltron. It's like praying to Zeus against a nuke. You need a set of principles that actually generates collective power, power comparable to China. Or you need to capitulate. CAPITULATE, OR COOPERATE The Democrats (and the Western left more broadly) are actually the first to realize this, which is why Carney/Mamdani/Newsom/Walz and the like are just capitulating to the Chinese state. The Biden Democrats threw the kitchen sink at China, but the Chinese state won, and proved itself the stronger horse. So blues are now (implicitly) auditioning for a position as overseas bureaucrats in Xi's empire, as apparatchiks in Communist Canada and Chinese California. Tech and Reds haven't fully caught on to this. The Republicans still claim their military is stronger than the Chinese military, and Silicon Valley still thinks their tech is better than Chinese tech. They point to the few areas where they still have an edge, while trying to ignore the enormous scale and speed advantages China has (especially in the physical world). You might think the mass-produced, back-flipping Unitree kung-fu Chinese humanoids would be enough to disabuse both red and tech of their illusions here. But a demo is probably not enough; we may all actually need to see the Chinese drone armada in action to mark the world to market. Perhaps it gets debuted in Ukraine, Iran, or some other proxy war. As Orwell put it, "sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” I do hope my friends on left and right learn to cooperate before that happens. I am extremely skeptical that they will.

Balaji

127,505 views • 5 months ago

🚨 AI AGENTS ARE HERE… and they’re destroying, disrupting and transforming industries. So today we had an emergency debate about it… I think “AI agents” might be the most disruptive technology of our lifetime. This is an AI team member that can browse the open internet and make decisions on its own - essentially acting as a free employee - and you can have 100s or 1000s of them working for you at once. This completely changes the way the world and business works. You can now build your own AI agents in minutes to solve problems you have in your business or personal life. A friend of mine who runs a big company that you probably know - has gone from 7,000~ team members to 3,000~ because they’re now using AI agents instead of hiring people 😳 So I brought together three of the most vocal minds when it comes to AI for a debate unlike anything we’ve ever done before. Amjad Masad is the founder of Replit, a billion dollar company that is leading the AI Agents race and has become one of the fastest-scaling AI companies in Silicon Valley history. Bret Weinstein is a biologist and evolutionary theorist who believes AI could lead us to a societal collapse. Daniel Priestley who is a futurist entrepreneur who says this wave of AI Agnets is as big as the industrial revolution. This was one of the most fascinating conversations we’ve ever hosted. What is your honest feelings towards AI? Does it scare you or are you leaning into it? Watch the full episode now on YouTube: search “The Diary of a CEO AI Debate” or click the link in the comments.
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🚨 AI AGENTS ARE HERE… and they’re destroying, disrupting and transforming industries. So today we had an emergency debate about it… I think “AI agents” might be the most disruptive technology of our lifetime. This is an AI team member that can browse the open internet and make decisions on its own - essentially acting as a free employee - and you can have 100s or 1000s of them working for you at once. This completely changes the way the world and business works. You can now build your own AI agents in minutes to solve problems you have in your business or personal life. A friend of mine who runs a big company that you probably know - has gone from 7,000~ team members to 3,000~ because they’re now using AI agents instead of hiring people 😳 So I brought together three of the most vocal minds when it comes to AI for a debate unlike anything we’ve ever done before. Amjad Masad is the founder of Replit, a billion dollar company that is leading the AI Agents race and has become one of the fastest-scaling AI companies in Silicon Valley history. Bret Weinstein is a biologist and evolutionary theorist who believes AI could lead us to a societal collapse. Daniel Priestley who is a futurist entrepreneur who says this wave of AI Agnets is as big as the industrial revolution. This was one of the most fascinating conversations we’ve ever hosted. What is your honest feelings towards AI? Does it scare you or are you leaning into it? Watch the full episode now on YouTube: search “The Diary of a CEO AI Debate” or click the link in the comments.

Steven Bartlett

110,275 views • 1 year ago

DAVID SACKS ON THE AI RACE: "The US is currently in an AI race, and our chief global competition is China, obviously. They're the only other country that has the talent, the resources, and the technology expertise to basically beat us in AI. And I think whoever wins this AI race, that's going to have tremendous ramifications for both our economy and our national security. Clearly, we want the US to be the winner, just like we were with the internet, and every other technology revolution before that […] We know that to win this AI race, we have to be the most innovative. You can't regulate your way just to beating your competitor. You have to out-innovate them. And we know that in the United States, the innovation comes from the private sector, not the government. So we have to do everything we can to help our companies win, to help them be innovative, and that means getting a lot of red tape out of the way… We have to have the most AI infrastructure in the US. It has to be the easiest place to build it. All of the new data centers that are going in, they require tremendous power, so getting ahead of the curve on energy, making sure we stand up all of this new infrastructure we're going to need to basically produce these AI factories… We want the US technology stack to dominate globally. We want to be the partner of choice for the whole world… I think everyone in Silicon Valley understands that the way that you win a technology race is to have the biggest ecosystem […] You just want everybody to be building on top of your technology stack, and that's what we want for the United States." David Sacks w/Marc Benioff Dreamforce
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DAVID SACKS ON THE AI RACE: "The US is currently in an AI race, and our chief global competition is China, obviously. They're the only other country that has the talent, the resources, and the technology expertise to basically beat us in AI. And I think whoever wins this AI race, that's going to have tremendous ramifications for both our economy and our national security. Clearly, we want the US to be the winner, just like we were with the internet, and every other technology revolution before that […] We know that to win this AI race, we have to be the most innovative. You can't regulate your way just to beating your competitor. You have to out-innovate them. And we know that in the United States, the innovation comes from the private sector, not the government. So we have to do everything we can to help our companies win, to help them be innovative, and that means getting a lot of red tape out of the way… We have to have the most AI infrastructure in the US. It has to be the easiest place to build it. All of the new data centers that are going in, they require tremendous power, so getting ahead of the curve on energy, making sure we stand up all of this new infrastructure we're going to need to basically produce these AI factories… We want the US technology stack to dominate globally. We want to be the partner of choice for the whole world… I think everyone in Silicon Valley understands that the way that you win a technology race is to have the biggest ecosystem […] You just want everybody to be building on top of your technology stack, and that's what we want for the United States." David Sacks w/Marc Benioff Dreamforce

Ron Pragides 

231,781 views • 10 months ago

Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE The US government is over $37 trillion in debt. But what if there were a way out? Legendary investor and Khosla Ventures Managing Director Keith Rabois thinks that AI will turbocharge GDP growth to 4-6% a year, allowing us to grow our way out of the debt crisis. We sat down with Keith to discuss why he believes the US is entering a new economic expansion, whether sovereign AI projects are inevitable, the future of Google and Microsoft, why OpenAI is so dominant, and the prospects for peace in the Middle East. 00:00 Intro 00:45 Iran neutralized & rise of sovereign AI 02:30 Trump’s second term, growth, & Fed battles 04:05 Government shutdown, deregulation & media collapse 07:05 Elon–Trump reconciliation & growth vs austerity 09:05 AI’s GDP impact & America’s next boom 11:35 OpenAI’s dominance & Google’s existential challenge 15:05 The coming AI hardware revolution 19:25 Big tech under AI pressure: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple 31:10 Opendoor and the Amazon-for-homes thesis 37:10 The state of fintech 46:01 Why experts don’t innovate Keith Rabois Alex Rampell Erik Torenberg
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Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE The US government is over $37 trillion in debt. But what if there were a way out? Legendary investor and Khosla Ventures Managing Director Keith Rabois thinks that AI will turbocharge GDP growth to 4-6% a year, allowing us to grow our way out of the debt crisis. We sat down with Keith to discuss why he believes the US is entering a new economic expansion, whether sovereign AI projects are inevitable, the future of Google and Microsoft, why OpenAI is so dominant, and the prospects for peace in the Middle East. 00:00 Intro 00:45 Iran neutralized & rise of sovereign AI 02:30 Trump’s second term, growth, & Fed battles 04:05 Government shutdown, deregulation & media collapse 07:05 Elon–Trump reconciliation & growth vs austerity 09:05 AI’s GDP impact & America’s next boom 11:35 OpenAI’s dominance & Google’s existential challenge 15:05 The coming AI hardware revolution 19:25 Big tech under AI pressure: Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple 31:10 Opendoor and the Amazon-for-homes thesis 37:10 The state of fintech 46:01 Why experts don’t innovate Keith Rabois Alex Rampell Erik Torenberg

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