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“There's a Meaningful chance that we are going to make AI so powerful that we will lose control of it. And if we lose control of it, there's all kinds of bad things that can happen, including us all dying.”

“Five years from now, 99.9999% of all content will be created by AIs.”

“So in every domain, like AI starts off as a tool and then it goes up through the four levels. And so that's the thing to keep an eye on, is like, in, in your industry, if AI is starting off as a tool right now, eventually it'll become an assistant, then it'll …”

“I was doing AI music like four years ago and the biggest like EDM ghost producing website, which were, which is, they were responsible for like a large percentage of all EDM tracks. And they were selling secretly a third of all of their tracks were AI generate…”

“In a world where all the influencers are, you know, AI, they're not human anymore, or, like, a large percentage of them, rather, are AI influencers. A large percentage of all relationships online become with AIs because the AI can be tailored.”

“I measure this quite a bit, and the average person is actually only listening to about 10% of all of the actual sentences. In a given podcast or book that they're reading.”

“There's tons of weapons systems you already have that like, there's no human that decides like the robots decide for us. Like they shoot down the missile before we even have time to react, you know? So we've already given up the Like kill switch to the machine…”

“I think the next five years are going to be more, like more is going to happen in the next five years than like happened in the last, like, you know, 25 years.”

“I think blockchain will actually be useful here is you can cryptographically sign you know, content to verify that it was, in fact, created by the person who says it was created by. I think that's going to be absolutely critical”

“I made in Two hours of work. I made a viral Facebook photo frame. It was like a circle around your head that said stay home, save lives, which if you're on Facebook, you would have seen it because hundreds of millions of people used it. And it was the most vir…”

“This is just kind of early days of AI, but what it's gonna be is, like, first it starts with just a blank, you know, a blinking cursor in a search box where you have to, like, spontaneously think of what you want to ask the AI or what you want the AI to do, an…”

“So I would say the headlines themselves are all still written by humans, but I think when it comes to algorithmically created content, the headlines are gonna be the first thing that are actually completely written by AI.”

“Between dose and OMG facts, which are actually basically the same site. They're just on different domains. Cause we test on different domains.”

“We've raised thirty-five million in there full-time.”

“So when I was 12, I convinced my parents to let me drop out of school and start homeschooling myself. And so I'm a middle school dropout”