Tom Bilyeu
“I think what could happen with AI is we could build a fence around ourselves, and China could end up serving the rest of the world.”
Gurley argues Anthropic and OpenAI seek regulation to handicap startups and open source competitors.
“I think for certain reason Anthropic and OpenAI are begging for regulation is so that they can write rules that make it harder for startups, open source models to be competitive with them, which I think is very rational for them to do, but I don't think it's good for society.”
Gurley observes the biggest AI doomers have the largest financial stakes in foundational models.
“It's remarkably interesting that the biggest doomers are the ones that have the biggest financial stakes and the biggest foundational model.”
Gurley argues AI crimes are already illegal under existing laws, questioning need for new regulations.
“If I defraud you with AI, it's still illegal as it would have been if I'd have done it with a phishing scam before AI. And so there why do we need new laws?”