William Welser IV
Co-Founder and CEO, Lotic.ai. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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William Welser IV is the co-founder and CEO/CTO of Lotic.ai, an AI and behavioral science startup. He previously spent a decade at the RAND Corporation directing the Engineering and Applied Sciences Research Department and authored The Story Economy.
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Everything William Welser IV said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Welser: Current LLM systems are inherently sycophantic
“So right now these systems are sycophantic. They are, they're based on our prompts. They're going to take what we say and give us back what we've asked, and then we're going to iterate.”
Welser: LLMs cannot master conversational nuance because human emergence lacks rules
“Like, all of that last mile of interaction, it's not there, because there's no rule set against it. Like, there's too much emergence that happens between an individual when you or between two individuals when you're talking together, and then there's emergenci…”
Welser: People are offloading cognitive responsibility onto LLMs
“I am worried, and I have seen lots of examples just in my
personal space where people are offloading their intellectual curiosity. They're offloading their cognitive responsibility onto these LLMs. And they're not taking it with a grain of salt. They're sayi…”
Welser: AI's true risk is humans becoming too dumb to make decisions
“I'm not really worried about AI becoming so smart that we have our, you know, AI overlords. I'm worried about us becoming so dumb That we are just reliant upon something to make any decision. We're reliant upon something to just tell us the answer.”
Welser: Software cannot scale to enterprise level through vibe coding
“Like I can build lots of things, but if I'm gonna like scale something to an enterprise level, I'm not gonna do it vibe coding. Because there's a lot of other things that are required on the, in different parts of that system to make it robust, to make it so i…”
Welser: AI algorithms can run on individual data without pooling user data
“There's more than enough data at the individual level to run these very, very powerful algorithms. I don't need to commingle my data with yours just so I can run those algorithms.”
Welser: Humans psychologically require friction and struggle to find happiness
“From a psychological standpoint, that's kind of problematic because we require friction in our lives, which is why people will say, oh my gosh, I've got, you know, that person has everything. They have all the money. They've got all the house. They've got all …”
Welser: Users will not speak vulnerably to AI without provable privacy
“Without privacy, privacy provisioning, provable security, and an ethical approach that can be shown to the individual you're never going to get them to speak that way.”
Welser: Startups succeed by treating big tech AI models as commodities
“There's been really an AI race between these large companies, which has led to a commoditization of these tools. And if you take the approach of I'm not going to fight them, I'm not going, but I'm going to learn how to ride on all of the rails. I'm going to lo…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens William's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 WE LIVE TO BUILDLEDGER | Co-Founder and CEO, Lotic.ai | 1 | 9 | — | full record on We Live to Build → |