Nation States
topic on 6 shows · 10 statements across 9 episodes
More or Less 
the Knowledge Project 
My First Million 
the a16z Podcast 
All-In 
20VC
10 statements about Nation States, every show
Kurtz: Nation-state hackers will always break into a target phone if determined
“If you look at the nation states and some of the creative ways they can actually get into a phone, as an example, if they want to get in bad enough, they're going to get in.”
Patel: Major AI misalignment risk is AI playing nations against each other
“From the misalignment stuff, the main thing I worry about is the AI playing us off each other rather than us playing the AIs off, off each other.”
Midha: Sovereign AI Will Be Largest Purchasing Decision in Next 2 Years
“It's the single largest probably purchasing decision That's going to happen in the next 24 months is do nation states start buying?”
Midha: Nations place GPU orders 12 to 36 months in advance
“And that starts with them placing orders, 12 to 36 months in advance to take delivery of GPUs, because if you don't get in front of that line, it's over. You're getting it after everybody else, right?”
Shaan Puri: Identifiable founders cause digital currencies to fail
“Problem one with digital currencies was you can't be the guy behind it. Because as soon as this thing gets popular, you have too much power and the nation states who today control the currency supply, they're not going to like you or that, or they're just goin…”
Morin: Nation states will compromise phones regardless of Telegram or Signal
“Nation states have enormous resources and spend enormous resources to break encryption, find back doors, like do all kinds of things to make sure that they can listen to your phone if they want to. And it doesn't matter whether you're on Telegram or Signal, na…”
Guo: Nation states and hackers will use AI tools for malicious code
“If you can do code generation, you can do malicious code generation, right? And just like other nation states and hackers are going to use every other tool out there. If they write code, they're going to write code with AI tooling.”
Srinivasan: Bitcoin Is on Track to Become the 'Government of Governments'
“Bitcoin, the reason I say Bitcoin specifically is it's, you know, it's on track. We will see if it can actually get there. Cause it's got various kinds of issues, you know, privacy and other kinds of things that, you know, but It's on track to be the governmen…”
Casado: Nation-state level physical infiltration tactics are now targeting private citizens
“These were the type of attacks that we would see you know, nation states do to each other. Like, I had no idea that this type of things would like to start happening down the street, but it actually is happening today.”
Lynn: Nations increasingly recognize the high operational utility of cyber weapons
“Cyber weapons are the, are weapons that are eminently usable for a variety of purposes. And one of the most interesting things of the past 10 years is that nations are starting to wake up to this. They're starting to see that these weapons are enormously usabl…”