Balaji Srinivasan: Anti-AI backlash will mimic anti-crypto and anti-tech movements
Balaji Srinivasan · Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money · Jul 28, 2025 · at 1:06:25
Balaji Srinivasan, entrepreneur and former CTO of Coinbase, discusses societal resistance to AI technology with a16z General Partner Martin Casado.
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“I think that there's going to be, there already is An anti-AI backlash that's like the anti-crypto backlash and will be part of the anti-tech backlash because a lot of people are not using AI for what we're using it for. They're using it for like therapy or they're using it like, you know, for Like as a companion or something like that, you know, and goes to the top of the pyramid of needs.”
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