Dan Scalco

Chamath says Silicon Valley needs to shelve the AI consciousness and extinction talk for 12 to 18 months and show AI curing cancer or how it improves people's lives instead "But I would say is, we're in a really important moment in time where conflict is more likely than not, and that conflict will be for power, money and resources, and this will be at the core of that conflict." "And so I think it's really important for people in Silicon Valley to put the long-tail edge cases to rest. Like, if you read this, these guys say that there's a 15% chance that the AI is conscious and sentient, and maybe there's a God there. But they also say there's a 10% chance of civilizational extinction." "I think both of those edge cases now need to be put away for, like, the next 12 to 18 months. Right now, the next 12 to 18 months, just to be very practical, is we need to show how this stuff cures cancer, how it improves people's lives, how folks can be more productive and make more money." "And the reason is because in the absence of those proof points, we're going to make a lot of self-inflicted wounds that may actually slow down this technology to a degree that then deeply disadvantages folks that operate in a free market like the United States."