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DM Dewayne Moore On For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

“Our history is littered with, I mean, it's just full of examples, after example, where companies were left alone to police themselves or regulate themselves. And they will basically do anything and everything, it seems like almost all the time, until they were physically stopped from doing it. And you'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. But I mean, history shows that normally that doesn't go well.”

For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast · AI Research & Frontier Labs · October 2026

“Our history is littered with, I mean, it's just full of examples, after example, where companies were left alone to police themselves or regulate themselves. And they will basically do anything and everything, it seems like almost all the time, until they were physically stopped from doing it. And you'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. But I mean, history shows that normally that doesn't go well.” — Dewayne Moore, For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast

Context

Dewayne, a newcomer to the AI risk debate, explains why he doesn't trust AI CEOs to regulate themselves. He points to historical examples of industries left to police themselves.

Transcript

For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast Around 09:06 into the episode
Dewayne Moore

…like aliens. You know, I don't, the Altman, he seems like just to hear the people talk that have met him or worked with him. It seems like a lot of them say he does have, he does have good intentions or, you know, but it seems like there's a lot of where he says one thing and then does another.

John Sherman

Yep.

Dewayne Moore

And I just don't trust any of them. It's probably not fair, but I just, I can't help it. The book also, sorry. But in the book, one part I remember that really struck me was the unleaded gasoline when they gave that example from. And just, you know, like I told you, I listen to a lot of podcasts and it's really, it's really kind of sad and depressing. Like when you think about it, our history is littered with, I mean, it's just full of examples, example, after example, for example, where companies were left alone to police themselves or regulate themselves. And they will basically do anything and everything. It seems like almost all the time until somebody, until they were physically stopped from doing it. And you'd like to give them the benefit of the doubt. But I mean, history shows that normally that doesn't go well. So

John Sherman

have you seen Jensen Wong's media tour where he's like being, you know, his main theme is like, we don't need to regulate it. The market will regulate it. Bad companies are the market regulates bad companies and we don't need regulation. They'll just do the right thing because market conditions.

Dewayne Moore

I haven't seen that.

John Sherman

Oh my God. He's been doing this like two months long media tour where he basically is like, if they're doing something bad, they should stop right away. But I don't think they're doing anything bad. And, you know, it is just totally disconnected from the reality we're living in. And yet, you know…

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