Kara Swisher has just asked why anyone should believe the tech industry when it promises something is beneficial. Larsen's answer separates tech generally from AI specifically, and he goes on to name what bothers him: companies warning that the technology is dangerous and then shipping a more powerful model twenty minutes later.
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Rejected it. So there's no amount of money or promises were believed in any way. So why should we believe you? Not you, but why should we believe tech at this point when that happens when there's things that are beneficial, like you're talking about?
Yeah, I'd almost separate tech from the AI arms race. There is an AI arms race that's completely out of control. It's all gas, no brake, no steering. And of course, that's going to end badly. And I would say that's AI insanity, yet it continues. And when you have companies, I mean, there's So wealthy. But when you have them telling you, hey, we invented fire, we invented nuclear energy, and this is really dangerous and it's going to destroy jobs and it's going to hurt kids and take over humanity. And then 20 minutes later, they're releasing the new super powerful model. I just don't know how you reconcile that. And I think everybody understands that's not good. So I think the data center opposition, which is staggering, maybe that's healthy. That's the way to sort of stop it, slow it down, or force regulation in that industry. Because the other thing the industry is doing is they sort of tried to take a reverse page out of the crypto industry, setting up super PACs, but to crush anybody that dared come up with any guardrails. And you saw this in the Alex Boris race, right? That doesn't make any sense, right? So you actually need people now to be really leaders, to be smart and to be working on these guardrails and maybe even slowing it down.
I mean, Donald Trump told people they were stupid and poor if they didn't go along with it. Howard Luttnick said no water would be involved. He's such a moron.
Well, the weird thing about that is, which I don't get, is the MAGA movement is actually pretty aligned on this.
They are.