AI Regulation

“And one thing that feels obvious around this if these policies were to be rolled out is that you would effectively create an incentive for millions of Individuals or groups globally to be in secret, like trying to find entirely new breakthroughs that are.”

“You're going to see a lot of pushback from people who are like the regulatory stuff is going to be like these 10 companies and I'm going to be number 11 and I'm basically getting the corporate death penalty then because I didn't make the cut to be one of the r…”

“I was one against 99 in a vote on the Senate floor last year to place a moratorium on state-level AI regulations until we figured out a national framework.”

“They're going to win that because states have great sovereignty rights and like we're seeing what's self-driving. The states are going to decide it's not going to be a federal mandate.”

“And you're right, what it points to is this is going to be an unsustainable medium-term position, right? It's hard to imagine, like, unless the US government really wants to start regulating AI up and down the board, this is going to be, it's going to sound li…”

“Progress is like the accelerator, but regulation is the steering wheel. We want this stuff to go in the right direction, not the wrong direction. What the big AI companies are saying is let us develop this very fast car without a steering wheel. That's not a g…”

“The big companies should be putting a huge amount of work into making sure it doesn't happen in future. And for that, you need regulations. You need independent organizations testing out new chat pods.”

“I think that regulations are coming. I think they'll be worse under a Democratic regime, but I think that some form of oversight is going to exist under a Republican regime.”

“We are now seeing a Trump administration seriously considering, essentially taking a Biden approach to AI regulation, which was much more hands-on, which was contemplating reviewing models and training ahead of time.”

“If there ever was a leadership position that needs to be taken by any, ah, president, it's on AI regulation right now, not just the United States, but convening with China, with all the other our purveyors are, to make sure that we don't do something that has …”

“If we don't do rating ratings, Washington's going to. And Washington is going to butcher it. And let's even say Washington doesn't want to butcher it, but like it doesn't understand the metier.”

“No one's funding more lobbyists begging for AI regulation than Anthropic themselves.”

“If we get super heavy on U.S. Regulation, you may find there's a fence around the U.S. And China serves the rest of the world.”

“Now you're not shooting people, but you can pull the carpet off, make them jobless. It's like making families going into poverty. So it is the rules. Humans have to set the rules. You have traffic rules. You have immigration rules.”

“If I had one wish for the European regulators, I spoke with quite a few European regulators, I was hearing things like, we want to be leaders in regulating AI, and that's a competitive advantage. And with all due respect, that's not a competitive advantage. So…”

“You see the regulation they put on in Europe, and that's why there's really not a whole lot happening in Europe on the AI front right now”

“Talking about regulating AI as AI is the wrong level of abstraction. It's like saying we're going to regulate databases, or regulate spreadsheets, or regulate cars.”

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And so the burden of proof should be on the party making the extraordinary claims.”

“There was always this prevailing view, which has turned out to be so wrong from really well-intentioned people, which was like, it's going to be regulated anyways. If it looks like we're self-policing, we can dictate, you know, how that happens. And unfortunat…”

“You could not create stop signs and highway systems when the automotive car was first invented, right? You had to sort of see how the technology evolved And then you can figure out what regulations are needed. So that's definitely how this will play out.”

“He's banning states from actually getting into any AI regulations over the next decade. He's centralizing federal control over AI regulation.”

“In terms of, like, you know, enabling companies and people to continue to build in this bleeding edge, I think any effort to curb that will probably not result in more innovation. It'll probably result in more gunk, if you will.”

“It would also potentially be worse to prematurely optimize And basically make a bunch of worthless laws that slow down the rate of progress and prevent things like better cancer vaccines, or better airfoils, or, you know, frankly, like, you know, nuclear fusio…”

“Unfortunately, the EU has shot itself in the foot. A lot of different kinds of regulation, and in particular AI regulation, destroying a fledgling ecosystem that could never get off the ground.”

“In AI, and I think this is changing rapidly for the better with the new administration, you know, there was a lot of talk of, like safety and regulation, and we can't do this, and we can't have this many parameters, and if you use more than this much compute, …”

“If you force me to bet I think a lot of it will focus on data security, and so it'll be kind of under the, you know, banner of AI, but it'll probably be a lot of the things we've talked about with data security”

“So we understand these tax liability chains now better than anything else. And that will be important for AI. We'll come back to AI a little later in AI regulation in a very big way.”

“In Europe, they said, We must regulate the app. App for them is like a car. Yeah. So they say we'll not put a car on the road until it is safe for its occupants. And we can't trust the car maker to do the testing to determine whether it's safe for the occupant…”

“By looking at the bookends on the distribution side and at the data side, We may allow for a fairly liberal system in the middle.”

“And so, if we hobble ourselves with unnecessary regulations, if we make it more difficult for our AI companies to compete, that doesn't mean that China's gonna follow suit and copy us. They're gonna take advantage of that fact, and they're gonna win.”

“I do a lot in biotech as well, and we have all these new machines that are able to like construct and build Like, you know, chains of things and build viruses and stuff like they did in China. Like maybe we should be regulating those. Like I'm like, so against…”

“Europe has all the AI regulation and none of the AI companies.”

“I've heard there's as many as 25 now state-by-state initiatives, and I guess this is how policy works in this country, but there's a bunch of reasons to be really worried about this.”

“AI touches everything, and so AI regulation is a unique vector for, like, government Power.”

“The vast majority of states are pretty regulation happy and want to put up, like, 700 plus different versions.”

“I think the nourish is too big. I mean, Michael has had this narrative for a while, but, and like France was one of the bigger kind of defenders of open source, et cetera, but I don't think it's going to change much.”

“Like put ankle weights around our own feet. That is the way to basically snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory in a way that I, that's a level of self-harm that would be so cosmic. I mean, quite frankly, if we do that, we deserve to lose.”

“In general, for me, I'm in favor of the regulations that are creating more competition, more opportunities for everyone to build with AI, and tackling some of the end user risks of AI today, like the risk of misinformation, the risk of biases. Instead of focus…”

“A lot of the details about how those regulations sometimes evolve can be a bit misguided or miss the point or somehow Just when I read them, basically they're going to become dated in, in a matter of months, because they're dealing with things and they're appr…”

“It has a really nice model for AI regulation that I think is probably right, which is when you have a new technology, you don't know what the problems and issues are going to be. You do fast follow-up regulation. So you don't try and pre-regulate because you d…”

“Adding provenance to data that gets generated by these models, right, so that you know whether this is, you know, real or fake and all of these things. All of that responsibility and regulation makes a lot of sense. It's not gonna Save you from the bad actors.”

“I do not think that that fear should be the basis on which all AI regulation is based. And I do not think it's should crowd out efforts to police risks that are very real and here now around racial bias, around disinformation around job loss.”

“The regulation should happen at the application level, not at the technology level.”

“On AI the UK has less regulation than any other country that has a significant AI industry.”

“I think that is going to set Europe back in competitiveness more than it's already been set back in competitiveness over the last 20 years.”

“I think it's incredibly dangerous to try and make predictions about future capabilities, about where the technology will go and make rules, legislations, laws. Like prohibiting or enforcing or requiring certain research directions through a theoretical lens. I…”

“I mean, I think my sort of underlying beliefs on AI are AI should likely get regulated through the existing regulatory frameworks that exist. I don't see a lot of new harm or use cases or damage caused by just the narrow form of AI systems that we have today t…”

“I think the odds that, that any government in any country could get in this early and start messing around with inputs and be effective is near zero.”

“I don't think we're going to get a lot of regulation. I would be surprised if we see a lot of incremental dollars go into this.”

“Generally speaking, regulation is enshrining the past against the future, and if you look at every industry that goes really intense in regulation, it's, it slows down intensely on innovation, and if you say, well, that's what we should be doing in AI, it's li…”

“I personally, if it wasn't obvious, I already think that the AGI risk is dramatically overstated. Right. And not what we should be talking about largely because I think I'll call it dirty AI, like dirty nukes. Which is like partial AI solutions or shitty AI th…”

“I think it's, like, been a cute trick that a bunch of the incumbents to date, and then we'll call out OpenAI, for instance, has been saying, oh, we're the good guys, regulate AI, and you're like, yeah, like, of course, like, that trick is a little old, guys, r…”

“And I just think that on a spectrum, it's, this is a unique moment where the most knowledgeable people across every single political spectrum, persuasion, for-profit, nonprofit, Democrat, Republican, right? Elon and Sam, I'll just use those as the two canonica…”

“I actually think it's just politically, I think it's politically incorrect to be anti-regulation right now. I think because of what you're saying, well, just give me a second, I think because of what you're saying, Everyone on the left and the right, it's beco…”

“Because they're going to regulate all innovation out of Europe, and not embrace this technology to drive them forward.”

“The big pivot point for regulation may actually come during the 20, 24 election. Because I think that's the moment that people will show examples of AI being used to influence the election or influence voting behavior, just like ads influence voting behavior, …”

“The only way to ultimately do that degree of regulation and restriction is going to be to restrict the open internet. It is going to be to have monitoring and firewalls and safety protocols across the open internet, because you can have a set of models running…”

“Regulating linear algebra. Like, are we really gonna regulate linear algebra, matrix multiplication, like, really, seriously? And then even if we do, are we going to possibly do it, you know, in a way that makes any sense?”