The Exchanges

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q think it will be, at some point, they're not just going to let, the governments aren't just going to let private companies run it. They're going to want to have a much more integrated sort of approach with it. Um, Where do you stand on sort of the likelihood of that, and what does that mean if the feasibility of regulation in a world where, um, it's much more decentralized?

A I think I have probably a strong opinion on that. I mean, I grew up in Germany, right, so benefiting from the Marshall Plan. One lesson I took away from that is that I think any kind of centralized planned approach does not work, right? I mean, to some degree, the Eastern Bloc, Eastern Germany, right, was it, uh, Eastern Germany or Western Germany was a nice A-B test, you know, central planning versus a free market economy, what works better, right? And I think the results speak for themselves. Um, So I think basically having the government drive all of AI strategy, you know, Manhattan-style project or Apollo project, pick your favorite successful project there, I can't see that working. You probably need a highly dynamic ecosystem of a large number of companies competing. There's some areas, I think, where the government can be, have a hugely positive effect, right, on the research side. We've seen it again and again, like funding, fundamental research, which is not quite applied enough yet for enterprises to pick up. Right. It's very valuable. I think it can help in terms of setting good regulation. Bad regulation can easily torpedo, uh, AI as we've seen. Um, and, and so I think there's a, there's a strong will for government to lead this and to direct this. There's no master plan at the end of the day that you can make that basically has all the details that has to come from…

AI assessment note: “having the government drive all of AI strategy... I can't see that working”

Answered raw tape D 4 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30

Q think it will be, at some point, they're not just going to let, the governments aren't just going to let private companies run it. They're going to want to have a much more integrated sort of approach with it. Um, Where do you stand on sort of the likelihood of that, and what does that mean if the feasibility of regulation in a world where, um, it's much more decentralized?

A I think I have probably a strong opinion on that. I mean, I grew up in Germany, right, so benefiting from the Marshall Plan. One lesson I took away from that is that I think any kind of centralized planned approach does not work, right? I mean, to some degree, the Eastern Bloc, Eastern Germany, right, was it, uh, Eastern Germany or Western Germany was a nice A-B test, you know, central planning versus a free market economy, what works better, right? And I think the results speak for themselves. Um, So I think basically having the government drive all of AI strategy, you know, Manhattan-style project or Apollo project, pick your favorite successful project there, I can't see that working. You probably need a highly dynamic ecosystem of a large number of companies competing. There's some areas, I think, where the government can be, have a hugely positive effect, right, on the research side. We've seen it again and again, like funding, fundamental research, which is not quite applied enough yet for enterprises to pick up. Right. It's very valuable. I think it can help in terms of setting good regulation. Bad regulation can easily torpedo, uh, AI as we've seen. Um, and, and so I think there's a, there's a strong will for government to lead this and to direct this. There's no master plan at the end of the day that you can make that basically has all the details that has to come from…

AI assessment note: “having the government drive all of AI strategy... I can't see that working.”

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