Todd Young
U.S. Senator (R-IN). On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Todd Young is a U.S. Senator representing Indiana. He advocates for open innovation, American leadership in AI research, public-private partnerships, and modernizing foster care placement processes.
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3said about them ↓ Everything Todd Young said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Sen. Todd Young: The US is already behind in national security AI
“And then there'll be some things, as you heard about earlier today, that deal with national security where we're already behind.”
Sen. Todd Young: Lawmakers are using AI to push decades-old tech bills
“So I do think that some are either confused. There are others who are just probably using the opportunity of this legislative effort, which is ahead of us to lever, to try and pass bills that they had prepared two decades ago.”
Sen. Todd Young: The probability of AI doom is low but non-zero
“Yeah, I, low, but not non-existent. Yeah. Which is how most of the, You know, doomsday scenarios are. They're low probability, high cost, and we need to hedge against them, but I think, let me say this, the first step in hedging against them is to really seek …”
Sen. Todd Young: AI will reduce overall existential risk long-term
“I'm gonna, I think, here's what we're probably gonna have. We're gonna have, in the short run, some unsteadiness. Yeah. Right? Because we're trying to learn countermeasures. We're trying to figure out how systems work. We're trying to figure out all sorts of t…”
Senator Young: Only 10 of 80 federal social programs rigorously studied
“There are roughly, depending upon one, how one counts the different social support programs, 80 federal social support programs. Only 10 have ever been rigorously studied using the gold standard, randomized controlled trials across multiple sites. Can you imag…”
Sen. Todd Young: US Senators agree AI regulation must be light-touch
“There was a general embrace by my colleagues after they heard from the world's best minds that we needed to regulate, but it would have to be a light touch approach.”
Sen. Todd Young: Regulators catastrophize whole tech sectors instead of specific outcomes
“I think there's a tendency to catastrophize different technology areas as opposed to different potential outcomes.”
Sen. Todd Young: AI regulation should be tech-agnostic and target prohibited behaviors
“Historically the reason one of the many reasons we've been a dynamic country and created a favorable regulatory atmosphere for our technology developing businesses is We have laws that reflect our values and we apply those laws to technologies only if they run…”
Sen. Young: CHIPS Act spurred $200B private capital before $1B federal spending
“Over two hundred billion dollars of private capital is, has been invested. And we're not even at a billion dollars even close to it of federal monies that has been released.”
Sen. Todd Young: DOE labs developed fracking tech before private industry
“I look at the innovations that have occurred through our DOE labs, like the one you worked at like the one that developed fracking technology before the frackers claimed it their own right?”
Sen. Todd Young: Traditional congressional hearings fail on complex issues like AI
“So if we had gone the traditional route in trying to address artificial intelligence issues, that would have meant that a number of committees of jurisdiction would have started to hold hearings on artificial intelligence in a very public way. Members of their…”
Sen. Todd Young: Bipartisan AI legislation will advance in coming months
“And so all of those things are among the things that I think in coming months will be addressed through the committees of jurisdiction in a bipartisan way. If politics doesn't get in the way. And as it relates to most of this, I don't think it will.”
Sen. Todd Young: CHIPS Act research funding outmatches semiconductor incentives
“Arguably that will even be more consequential towards our economic security and our national security in the longer run than will the chips piece.”
Young: Government programs track inputs rather than human outcomes
“And our government programs, typically they don't measure outcomes. They may measure inputs.”
Sen. Young: Government should embed private sector predictive analytics into welfare programs
“I think that the private sector can help government better understand its own problems by embedding predictive analytics into some of our programs. We could do that in our social programs. And then on the back end of it is rapid cycle evaluation to determine w…”
Senator Young: Randomized controlled trials for social programs now cost $100,000
“You can do a randomized controlled trial for about you know, a hundred grand now”
Senator Young: Opioid crisis overloaded Indiana's foster care system
“This is ground zero for the opioid crisis, and what has happened is so many children of opiate addicts find themselves in our foster care system. It's overloaded Indiana's foster care system”
Senator Young: Interstate foster care system is slow, paper-based, and opaque
“Some of the problems, just to very quickly itemize them, it's a paper-based system, so it's really slow. Extra costs are associated with looking through the paperwork for staffing, and then for equipment, and supplies, and maintenance of all the records. And t…”
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| a16zLEDGER | U.S. Senator (R-IN) | 2 | 18 | 80% 4/5 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |