Government

“So right now, the data you have in your AI chats doesn't even reach the same level of protection as email. So in most contexts, if the government wants to get your emails, they would have to get a search warrant, and they'd have to prove probable cause in a co…”

“The government has a lot of dead inventory like that stadiums, auditoriums, which are not utilized, nor are they fixed. Somebody needs to prioritize that as well.”

“And I think the government is particularly Ill suited to do the latter, particularly over time. It's just not a good government function, but they're very good at setting the rules because they can enforce the rules. So I think that that's kind of a combinatio…”

“This is the fastest I've actually seen the government move with anything.”

“I think that a bunch of likely government action at least seems to push in favor of AI companies keeping their models internal and not deploying them, which I think for the risks that I'm most worried about doesn't help and in fact is anti-helpful”

“There's a lot of risk from just internal deployment, especially if you're deploying within AI companies and government, right, which are two of the most high stakes Applications”

“Government is non-linear. So you can put an input into a government and you just never know what you're going to get out.”

“That was the most cynical bullshit I've ever heard from my perspective, even though I do actually like Trump accounts and the idea of the index.”

“You can't have progressive policies if people think that the government can't run an organized one-car parade. Not possible. They have to have an affirmative view.”

“Our industry grew up being secretive. Not secretive because we had anything to hide from anybody, but think about the first two significant customers for large-scale data centers. It was the financial institutions and it was the government, and they were secre…”

“If there's no source of economic, if there's no source of funding for Moonshot to continue to train models, like, we know where the funding will come from instead, and it's not, like, something we, right, you know, it's government and things that, like, are ac…”

“Because so many people have the majority, if not the vast majority of their wealth in housing, there is a very reasonable motivation for governments to not want housing prices to go down. I mean, maybe you don't want it to go up a lot, but you certainly don't …”

“And I think that was also the, especially the case in government where it's such a highly high trust network. I mentioned that we got our second customer because the chief just told the other chief that these guys were good and trustworthy. That dynamic is ver…”

“And one of the examples I use Palantir and Roland, SpaceX, all had to sue the government for their first big contract, because the primes were sophisticated at selling, sophisticated at protecting their interests.”

“Whenever somebody says this is so scary, everybody should have to come in and get a license from the government. I'm like, well, the government does a lot of things very well, but the one thing they're not great at is like understanding the very frontier of te…”

“Well, it turns out if you're building in a new area the law is awfully oftentimes unclear. And if your company gets big enough, you will eventually intersect with government. Even if you have no interest in the government will eventually develop an interest in…”

“A government today is, is neither willing or able to service so many of the social needs that it used to in the past, and I do believe it's incumbent upon us to do a lot of that.”

“We're hosting National Secrets, weapons manufacturers with their contracts on Legora, and we work with governments.”

“Sam Altman trying to give five percent of the government to the government for regulatory capture and all this politics is so bad, right? Because all of a sudden it makes the game not a fair and open game that at least you can play with rules. It becomes a gam…”

“And those technologies today are not being built by governments. They're being built by the private sector.”

“We would definitely not participate in any endeavor that won't be conducted under, I would say, Clear and strict regulation and adequate governance by governments.”

“The only thing regulation can do, in my opinion, is stop that innovative culture. So if the government took Major equity shares in a company, and because of that provided unfair access for those companies to its products and its people. By definition, they're …”

“I think practically in the next three to five years, we probably have to end up in an environment where models do get evaluated by the government. There is a sort of collaborative approach between the government and research and the labs. You know, the governm…”

“And you really can't do it fully without some, again, I think there needs to be subsidy from the government and or, and mostly enterprise.”

“You do not get economic mobility if the government is giving you a job or giving you money. You lose economic mobility. You become indentured to the government.”

“The government's now said That foreign nationals inside Anthropic can't have access to it.”

“Like, I, at this point, I think stable coins will get there faster than the government will be able to do it.”

“Now the government has invested approximately a billion dollars into rare earth extraction and manufacturing.”

“Well, I very much agree with the Pope that the biggest risk of AI is a centralization of power, and then it's misuse against us in some Orwellian way. I think it's government that's gonna do that.”

“If you create, say an FDA for AI, as many people are calling on, that will give government the power to approve models and therefore give notes to model developers. And very soon this definition of safety will expand because the government always takes an expa…”

“Where we seem to be going is the government eventually, one way or the other, having much deeper participation in the, I don't want to call it vetting, but certainly getting an early Access early look into what is being developed.”

“The thing that was true about the kind of old incorrect idea was that they were way ahead of us in integrating their AI technology with their government, you know, on a kind of military basis, on a bureaucracy basis, you know, in all facets.”

“The role of government is very simple. It's to define games that have as externalities societal thriving. And then completely get out of the game to then let the players in this game cause, through means of competition extremely positive externalities to accru…”

“Governments are extremely bad at what they do. Everyone needs to know that like the moment a government takes over anything, it will cost 10 times as much, which is really, really, really bad”

“In their very first pitch deck, he said, we are going to make billions of dollars by saving the government tens of billions of dollars of revenue and of costs.”

“All of these settings are available to parents at the operating system level, which is a much more resilient way to implement this sort of policy. So I think a lot of the noise in the ecosystem today and a lot of the concern obfuscates the fact that, like, the…”

“There is new news from Michael Kratzios that the government seems to be taking anthropic and opening eyes messaging around distillation very seriously and is setting up a task force.”

“They were the first to aggressively try to provide service to the government after the Biden administration's executive order about AI because they were, and again, you see this in the marketplace too, OpenAI was more focused on the consumer, with ChatGPT and …”

“The government spends a hundred billion dollars a year on just IT modernization.”

“If government Defines us all. We'll probably screw it up. So you guys help us define what this transition looks like. Look at the training or reskilling, whatever tool we want to call it, but you also got to help pay for it because the costs of this are going …”

“When we talk to government, you know, they're looking for partners to absorb that risk. And frankly, when we talk to, you know, some of the commercial companies as well, they're really excited about venture's role in absorbing some amount of risk so that they …”

“All of these things can be characterized by Like a singular champion on the other side of the table that gets it, that believes in it, that wants to shepherd it. Actually you mentioned Shyam. He talks a lot about this kind of like heroism. Like it actually com…”

“We have not created an incentive structure in government to reward actual performance and outcomes. And so we are by default rewarding the performativeness of showing that we're doing such a lot of activity without a lot of impact.”

“The primes are just downstream of the consequence of the incentives the government gives, and I think the worst incentive is cost plus contracting. Your upside is, is capitated. You're not supposed to take any risk. The government basically pays for your R&D, …”

“Whichever way, like, the anthropic Pentagon stuff, like, evolves, like, I think it's very clear that this is not, like, the last time government deals will be made, right? Like, the OpenAI deal is not the last deal that OpenAI will make with the government.”

“And then, you know, the business has gone from zero to, you know, about five hundred million in ARR in the last seven years, building cameras, drones, and selling it to the government, which is like three strikes are out.”

“One of the roles of A foundation is to take risks that the private sector and governments aren't incentivized to take. There might be political risks, there might be economic risks, and the foundations can provide, because there's less accountability on founda…”

“You can regulate outputs rather than inputs in the system, and so, you know, I've been very favorable to having the government try to get out of service, being the service provider in K-II, right? That, you know, the government doesn't do a great job of, Being…”

“So there were two main sticking points that they went back and forth on no mass domestic surveillance and no fully autonomous lethal weapons.”

“The goal isn't to, fine, we just won't use Anthropic. I do think the goal is to hurt Anthropic. And you're, if you're not going to be subservient to us, you're not going to be allowed to build a power base, period.”

“My assumption is that, ah, the private company should have very little say in how the government uses those products”

“AI is the first chance to reset those expectations because you can basically say that Anything that is used by my population needs to pass these evals. That is a very, well, I don't know if it's good or bad, but it's a very powerful idea. There is no version o…”

“I think you're going to see a huge counter-cyclical movement against NIMBY laws, and that the government will probably come out with subsidies.”

“The, Only investments we've ever made in those spaces are ones that go direct to consumer, because we know going through the government, there's just not enough runway for those companies to get to the other side.”

“I think the government is afraid of the people criticizing it, and therefore they're engaged in what censors always do, which is protect the people in power.”

“The only thing that's unique about government is that it has the legal power to apply force. That's it. There are plenty of other decision-making bodies, associations, governance structures around society But they're not governments because they cannot apply f…”

“There's no need for government to be the provider of media. when people can, you have a, this is a media outlet right now. Why is it that you need the government to do what other people, with people, free citizens, Can do for themselves. And the answer is tha…”

“Governments, pharmaceutical companies, and a whole group of parasitical interest groups have created this crisis and perpetuated it.”

“I think the majority of Americans today live on checks from the government, through the government”

“The practical aspect of real estate in terms of taxing Is because the individual owner of real estate can't take it with them. It is a very practical asset asset to tax for the government because they can always tax that and you can't take it with you versus t…”