Andy Yen
CEO and Founder, Proton. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andy Yen is the co-founder and CEO of Proton, a Swiss privacy-focused tech company providing end-to-end encrypted tools like Proton Mail. Holding a PhD in particle physics from Harvard University, he is an advocate for encryption, online privacy rights, and Big Tech antitrust reform.
1shows
1appearances
10statements
3resolved
1supported
0contradicted
33%fully supported
Everything Andy Yen said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Yen: Social media is 'not so much different' than crack dealers
“What is social media? I view it literally not so much different than the neighborhood you know, pot or crack dealer. It's there to get kids hooked and addicted and put a lifetime of interdependency.”
Yen: Responsible parents knowing Google's model wouldn't sign up their children
“I think you cannot be a responsible parent today, know what Google does, and willingly sign up your child into that ecosystem.”
Yen: AIs will soon discern who we are better than psychologists
“AIs are going to get better at discerning who we are than probably even a psychologist.”
Yen: Frontier AI training costs will plummet to $1M in years
“What I mean by this is today, if you want to train a top of the line, you know, our frontier model, that might cost you a couple billion dollars.
But in a couple of years, that might be fifty million to, you know, a hundred million.
And then a few more years o…”
Yen: Opting out of AI training does not prevent data collection indefinitely
“Even if they don't use it for training, they can still store it for a long time, actually forever. They can still hand it over to a government under a subpoena. They could leak it if they were hacked in the future. So just because you've opted out of training …”
Yen: Gemini supercharges Google's surveillance model far beyond traditional search
“If you use Gemini instead of Google search, It is really supercharging Google's ability to understand who you are, and it knows a lot more than if you were just using a search product. So it's, you could think of it as Google's business model, but now on stero…”
Yen: Gmail exists primarily to permanently log users into Google's tracker
“And why did Google go so quickly into email? The reason is because they figured out in order to get all your information and correlate it to a single profile, they need you to be logged in. And the one thing that you're always logged into all the time online i…”
Yen: Nvidia backs open AI models primarily to sell more GPUs
“Nvidia sells GPUs. They don't sell proprietary models. And if they have great open models that everybody can use, then everybody is going to buy GPUs.”
Proton survey: 70% of kids have smartphones by 10, mostly using Gmail
“Today around 70% of kids have access to a smartphone by the age of 10, right? This is like seven and 10. And of those, actually, around three quarters are using Gmail.”
Proton survey: 60% of parents want to erase kids' Big Tech data
“41% of parents say that if they could start over and do things differently with putting their children online, they actually would want to, you know, start over. And 60% would want to be able to erase all the information about the kid that today is on these bi…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Andy's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | CEO and Founder, Proton | 1 | 10 | 33% 1/3 | full record on Big Technology → |