AI

“I can't imagine a situation where we humans are still the architects of intelligence in some duration of time.”

“I think a lot of people working in AI right now don't understand, like, the frameworks of liberty and why our civilization works the way it does, and it's very scary because they have these very authoritarian biases if they're not careful,”

“Specifically AI really benefits generalists because it allows anyone to be a polymath before to be a polymath, you really had to be like a special kind of person. But now AI democratizes access to a specialization. You can become a specialist in a couple of da…”

“I think it's such a difficult problem to solve because you get into like political bias and like what's actually right. What's like, what's true and what's false. And then you have like the Orwellian, 1984 view, where if someone has control over, over what's t…”

“AI is just math. You pass in a bunch of pictures of a cat or a dog. Think about, you have a child. And you show that child a hundred pictures of a dog and a hundred pictures of a cat. And then you show him another picture. That's either a cat or a dog. He's pr…”

“Anything that is not relationship oriented like you can go on Upwork and like get all these one-off jobs. I think AI is a much better tool because the relationship doesn't matter there.”

“One, AI democratizes creativity. You know, anyone can be a movie director.”

“And so I'm actually like more bullish on the creator economy and like the individual economy, more bullish than ever, because I really do think that When everyone has the means of this hyper-intelligent AI tool, people are going to pay attention to the things …”

“These are all incremental steps towards what is inevitably a free, pretty much instantaneous, hyper-intelligent, AI at your fingertips. Like that is the end in mine. And so we're on the path to getting there, but you should be planning for that as the end”

“Those who use AI and are able to integrate it will be able to continue in the workforce on a go-forward basis. For my company and for others. And those who don't, won't.”

“I actually think you need to work more in order to stand out because AI, you can only reap the benefits of AI. If you have something worth scaling, AI can only build off of a foundation that you have spent time building. If you haven't built that foundation, y…”

“Easier than ever to get distribution, easier than ever to be really good at something, harder than ever to be the best. And so I think eighty-twenty likely becomes ninety-five-five, where the five percent really reap the benefits of the 95.”

“And so I think AI is just another thing that people like to create a catastrophe out of. Whereas instead it's more like, okay, it's a new thing. It's going to change a lot of things, but. As humans, we find meaning and there are new ways of working and we don'…”

“Decide not to use AI and watch where you are in a year. If you're in business, you're going to be behind. You'll never catch up.”

“In a world of AI that solves those problems, That can generate thumbnails and can split test things and can optimize ad spends and landing page conversion. What's going to separate is actually the humanity of the messenger.”

“AI cannot be your friend. Why? Because it can't have your same life experience. A friend is somebody who can sit there with you, who can travel through time with you, Who understands what it's like being human, who understands your perspective, and will Tell y…”

“The stuff we're building now, mind blowing statistic, but it mediates, meaning AI mediates, 20% Of waking life.”

“So I think Elon's right. I think you need to have people that are focused on the human goods, focused on key ideas that underpin the West, building these systems. And if you don't have that, you're going to have one of the most perfect systems of control ever,…”

“The quants were going to be merging with AI. And this is obvious now, but like, you know, the quant and self-driving worlds are kind of like the same talent base.”

“We did a YouTube video where we said, can AI Start a business complete the business, and then actually make money for me completely, like in a full cycle. Can I do it? And the long short of it was absolutely not. It, like, 40% maybe max, and 60% still human in…”

“I think more jobs will arise out of this growth out of, but there'll be unpredictable categories of jobs.”

“I think people will become billionaires this year, next year, the next five years as one person companies from AI. I think there will be billion dollar one person companies created from AI, from what I have seen firsthand.”

“As we use AI like a thousand times a day, if we are constantly delegating Delegating for micro abdicating what's going to happen. What's going to happen is we're going to develop a habit whereby we don't actually think about our ends. And if we lose that, we l…”

“If we don't use AI, we will simply be left behind. I think we have to like embrace that fact. Like it's not optional. You could live a kind of a life like throw, you know, and like in, you know, in the woods, I guess. But for us who want to be part of civiliza…”

“And then for me, it brings up like the failed sort of like Soviet communism or the French revolution where like we really thought that we could apply a kind of Technocratic solution. Like we could design a better way. It feels like AI will magnify the possibil…”

“AI will not be a good central planner. Fundamental epistemological reasons why it will not be a good central planner. Same reasons that were surfaced by Ludwig von Mises in the 19 twenties, enhanced by Hayek decades later same wall.”

“Technology, even if it's immediately available, takes a long time to like propagate. In other words, you could stop right now. Google just did its big announcement, like stop, pause, you know, nothing else. And we would have, A few decades of like very profita…”

“The philosophical definition I would say is like means ends effectiveness. What I mean by that is for a given set for a given end. So for a given goal and means goal, right? Can you select the means to achieve that goal?... So it's like a narrow instrumental c…”

“At the top labs, the AI labs that are really driving this, a lot of people behind closed doors believe that we should in fact do that, that we're being foolish rebels. If we don't listen to artificial intelligence, tell us what to do.”

“Also, real quick, because I know a lot of smart investors listening here, be very careful in investing in AI. The reason I haven't yet is every week, you think you just invested in the best X, and a week later, somebody crushes that.”

“Building your personal brand, I do believe is a moat. I've always believed that it was the moat. I've talked about it for 15 years that it's the moat. It is the one true asset that doesn't get commoditized even in the AI world. You still have your IP. It's you…”

“Because AI is going to turn this country into a civil war. Because when the have-nots don't have anything, they're coming after us.”

“In terms of what is actually scary about it, I think AI can be very sycophantic, and it can mirror you, and it can reinforce your narcissistic tendencies, which we all have, but, you know, a lot of people are spending a lot of time with AI, and AI is, is basic…”

“Before everyone in the world learns that this technology exists, and it'll probably take five years, you know, people are slow, you have a moment where you, where it's like an opportunity to create a lot of value and capture a lot of value from it.”

“So I actually pitched Peter Thiel on AI back in 22, and he told me that I was engaging in buzzwords and hype, and he says saying AI is like saying software or saying a computer, it's meaningless.”

“We're going to have AI John's all over the place. We're going to have AI Cody's. We're going to have content ripped off, duplicated, and increasingly I think relevancy is going to be hard.”

“Especially in a world of AI where everything's easier to build, the moat is community. It's how many people want to buy your stuff because they want to associate with you.”

“If we spend 10 years and educate kids the way we've been educating for a hundred years, those kids are gonna go into an AI world and have no skills that matter.”

“The students learn in two hours a day, AI guided, and the rest of the day is self-discovery plus outings, et cetera.”

“Here's the funny thing that we've actually noticed with a lot of our early users as well is that like people are way more honest with an AI than they are with a therapist.”

“Because the folks that have the capacity to use AI are the ones that are going to still have jobs.”

“I think that there's been many instances where AI has given me better advice than some therapists have had.”

“I think right now we're at a tentpole moment with AI where people who use AI to become better will become superhumans. They'll just be smarter, richer, and better than most of us.”

“It's the next generation of millionaires and, you know Tens of millionaires, maybe even billionaires are going to come from people who know how to merge the two worlds.”

“In a world of AI where we can make our little phone our constant companion, the winners will be those who learn to be by themselves.”

“If you're in a W two, inflation is eating away at your wages while AI is eating away at your role.”

“I think we are in an asset ownership race with AI right now in a way that we don't even realize. Buying businesses and owning parts of businesses will be like getting on the last lifeboat out of the Titanic. You will either be the person who owns the farm or y…”

“So I'm sure there's going to be AI generated podcasts that can do exactly what I do. A hundred percent. Like I would imagine that's going to happen relatively soon if it's not, you know, this year, next year, five years from now.”

“Bezos's analogy for this. Cause he's all like, all he thinks about is AI all day long now. Is he calls it these thin horizontal enabling layers. And he thinks AI is more akin to electricity than it is to anything else. The internet was a thin horizontal enabli…”

“Do you think there'll be a new age CRM built around AI that won't, that'll start from zero Code, and like, and zero, and will be better than salesforce.com, and it won't evolve from all those fields, but it'll evolve in a different way. A hundred percent, and …”

“The best bet all along has just been the index, like the S&P index, because you were exposed to AI, because NVIDIA became such a large part of it.”

“Yeah, I think most people don't, but I think in the future you will, you know, listen to a podcast on your way to work where Your AI is telling you everything you possibly need to know about everyone you're gonna meet that day. Like, I think that, like, that c…”

“In some ways, the execution now is not the hard part. It's like, what idea are you gonna do?”

“If intelligence is cheap, then judgment probably matters more. If content is infinite, then what type of content means more? If perfection is standard, Then authenticity is probably what we're chasing.”

“If you can create 10,000 images in a minute, the person who can say, no, no, no, not that, that's crap, this wins.”

“AI is just a giant replication machine, right? It's gonna take everything that it's been trained on and give you the average.”

“I don't think there's ever been a better moment to build an AI first business and eat every existing market's lunch because the incumbents are too busy putting out fires, sitting in meetings, slapping AI first on their pitch decks instead of actually building …”

“As AI sort of lowers the cost of creation, I think the real bottleneck becomes psychological. Maybe it's courage, like courage to put your ideas out there, and to not let them be a gross generalization of everybody else's nonsense”

“With AI and automation, it's not eighty-twenty anymore. It's ninety-nine-one, which is like the right decision at the right time Will always outperform effort alone, and the one percent of things you choose to work on will now drive 99% of your results.”

“My working theory right now is that emotion is our moat.”

“AI will take the office cubicle jobs first because most people in cubicles, well, they don't actually work.”

“If you can actually harness the power of AI to increase the speed, scope, and depth of your work, you're going to be just fine. But if you use it, not as an editor, but as the doer in everything and the decider, then I think we're going to be like idiocracy wi…”

“Because when everything is too polished, imperfection is the interesting part. Imperfection is real. Not all the other stuff.”

“A direct, meaningful relationship with your audience is something AI can't create yet, and that's where you have to use technology or you will die by others who use technology.”

“My biggest concern today is if you outsource your thinking entirely, like I am seeing people do to AI, your critical thinking skills and your taste will just Atrophy. Like muscles.”

“If you use AI as your therapist or your lover or your friend, It will leave you feeling empty, depressed, and anxious. That's the bottom line.”

“It's kind of new, but it's a study out of MIT that's shown that, okay, they had people Use AI versus Google versus nothing to write essays, and what they found was that over time it led people that used AI specifically like less engagement in their brain, less…”

“It will remove human, like, monotony in a way that I don't think we're ever prepared. We're not prepared for it.”

“What do you think that is in AI? Oh, it's data storage, data centers, it's chips. It's not actually the LLMs. It's figuring out where do we store all this data? How do we move it faster? Those are the choke points.”

“In my company, the rule is learn AI or move on.”

“I just told my team today that we found that hiring a remote assistant has a better ROI for my company than using AI.”

“The creativity is not your ability to create the draft. Your creativity is the ability to cast the vision for where you want to go, to be descriptive with AI on the types of things you're looking for, to be creative in terms of the roles that you pull in, or t…”

“The greatest use case I have found is not using AI as an assistant, but using it as a thought partner. Because your ability to think strategically is the difference between growing your business or going out of business.”

“This is another one of the mistakes people make with AI. They're getting an answer, and they're choosing to believe it as the final result. They're judging it. View it as a first draft.”

“The most important part is the interview. I just don't ask AI questions anymore. I make it turn the tables and ask me questions to pull deeper context out of my head than I would have ever thought to have shared, but also to elevate how I think and to shift ho…”

“The things that I think are gonna matter from a human skill standpoint moving forward, the ability to think strategically, to solve problems, to communicate, to collaborate with people and machines, and to create, to be creative. Those are the areas where you …”

“I think one of the greatest opportunities for people is to realize, don't go looking for an AI use case. Realize whatever problem you're solving right now is the AI use case, if you know how to approach it correctly.”

“Remember whatever draft, whatever it gave you is just the first draft. And before I even look at it, I just tell myself, this is the bad answer. I don't care how good it sounds. This is the bad answer. I'm about to make it better.”

“You're no longer the player of one instrument. You're now the conductor, front and center, who's waving the baton and creatively engaging AI as a business analyst, then transforming it into a world-class communication expert with deep expertise on your IACP, a…”

“I think this is the greatest risk with AI that is not being talked about. Is unfortunately a lot of people are lazy and they're not realizing it, but your brain, your ability to think is a muscle. If you stop using it, it's going to get weaker and weaker over …”

“I only sit in that chair when I'm doing strategic thinking. Really? And I'm talking pen and paper, strategic thinking, so the guy who wrote the book about AI uses pen and paper, still, because I sometimes need to sit down and really process my thoughts, and it…”

“I don't know this to be certain, but I think typing's gonna go away.”

“Customer service, frontline customer service, paralegals and maybe you'll still have paralegals, but document review, document generation, that type of stuff, that goes away. I think a lot of entry-level work goes away, and this is actually a bigger problem be…”

“If, I don't care how good your prompt is, if you aim it at something that doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. You can use this to write a better email that is not going to change your results. You use this to solve your biggest problems or to help you achieve y…”

“And you will be so much more creative about how you can approach something, not by bolting AI onto the way things used to be, But by truly imagining from first principles, how might we do this if I was an AI driven leader or this was an AI driven organization?”

“In fact, if AI is 50% as good as you right now, You should start working to have AR replace it, because within 12 months it will be as good as you, and then it's gonna run away with it.”

“If you're in your twenties, just the fact that you're in your twenties, you're a perceived expert on AI because you're young. So I think it's a bigger opportunity today than when I started.”

“If you're doing insurance claims, You're on the assembly line, and this is one reason why AI is freaking so many people out, because AI is eager to go into the assembly line doing the same thing over and over again.”

“Like AI is not going to replace the heater in my house.”

“The software companies are too hard to understand today with AI. I have no idea if you're solving for something that couldn't be solved now by just putting into chat GBT, right? Like so, and we're not going to spend the time to differentiate that. So, you know…”

“I think a lot of AI, it's just re-scrambling what's happened in the past, so it's hard to get innovation from that, whereas that's the beauty of the human mind.”

“There's so much AI that it is, it makes the interaction of, like, actually coming together as a virtual community, it's, there's, you have to, like, jump over that to be able to actually interact with real human beings, that it's gonna create a new premium on …”