Discussion on AI's impact on government authority

And it's not about people choosing socialism as an ideology. To counter Chamath's comment earlier, I'm not saying people are choosing socialism as an ideology or as a set of principles. Socialist outcomes arise from the policies that people think are going to solve their cost issues. That's what ends up happening here, that people think the best way to solve the cost of things is to have the government do more and then you have more socialist policies. It's not that people are saying I want to be a socialist. And that's where you end up in this slippery slope spiraling problem. And I worry about how we're going to resolve to a budget going into 27 and 28. I do think AI is going to continue to be this really big political hot point. I think the like AI is almost like the Ring of Sauron, okay? And like both sides want the ring of Sauron. It's this ultimate kind of tool, this ultimate power. It is a risk to the state. It is fundamentally something that takes power out of the government's hands and distributes it. Let's just assume that there isn't a company making AI and there isn't a company that owns all the data centers. Assume that there's a million data centers and a million variants of open source AI In a world like that. There is no oligarchy that's making money off AI. So just assume that that's the case for a moment and that we can get to that end state. In that end state, the tools of AI pull a lot of power, a lot of influence away from government, from the state. And as that happens, I think the actors that want the state to be central, central command, central planning, central authority, and ultimately central power structure are going to react violently against that and they're going to want to have the AI. So I actually think the calls to stop the development of AI are actually calls for them to have absolute control over AI because it is way too powerful for them to not have the control over the AI. They want the AI. And I think a lot of the policy stuff that we're going to end up seeing here, and this is where if you play the game theory out, my, I still think I could be wrong, but I still think we end up in a place where the, the government says we want to regulate compute, they're not going to regulate the chips or the models because those are too hard to kind of catch up on. And you're never going to be able to regulate development of software. It's very hard to regulate deployment of software, but the utilization of that software is fundamentally constrained by how much access you get to compute. I think the data centers end up being treated like utilities in the future.