Zuck Starts Throwing His Weights Around

We've got a lot to, to go through.

And a lot of the conversation, as you say, at Trust Con and elsewhere, has been about AI regulation.

And it seems increasingly that there is a demand for it.

W- what this week has told me [laughs] more than anything is that not necessarily everyone agrees what that looks like, and there's a few stories-

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... that kind of have brought us to that conclusion.

Th- there are a whole bunch of stories.

I mean, it, we're sort of entering the battlefield of what is AI regulation going to look like.

And, and, you know, Kat talked about this on the podcast a little bit last week and mentioned that an article th- th- that she had co-authored was, was coming out, and that is now out and is absolutely worth reading, sort of looking at how can you design an AI regulator properly.

And it walks through the various challenges and the suggestions that some of the industry folks are making, and where they could go wrong, and how to correct them.

And it is...

You know, this is a very thoughtful piece, which is somewhat rare in this space, seeing actual thoughtful pieces [laughs] on how to actually do this, and sort of recognizes that it is extraordinarily complicated to do well and do right, and it would be very easy to get it wrong.

So I hope that more people will read this particular piece.

Now, at the same time, you also had Mark Zuckerberg sort of YOLO-ing into, to his version [laughs] of, of what the regulation space should be because, you know, we've had Sam Altman give his suggestion for how AI should be regulated.

We've had Dario Amodei give his version.

We had Demis Hassabis from DeepMind give his version of it.

But we hadn't really heard from Mark Zuckerberg.

So unlike the others, who mostly did it on their own corporate blogs, Zuckerberg gets the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal, which shows a little bit of how these companies are different, which ones are a little more established and able to commandeer-

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the op-ed pages [laughs] of The Wall Street Journal.

And he gives his position of basically complaining about the other AI companies talking about doom, and the end of the world, and everybody losing their jobs, and saying, and points out how ridiculous that is, and basically makes the argument that the best path forward is to allow AI companies to innovate as quickly as possible, not put in place all these other things that will slow, slow them down.

Sort of, you know, looks sideways at the various proposals, which may very well come to pass, that AI models will have to get pre-vetted over a period of time by either the government or some sort of industry consortium that reviews them for safety issues.

Points out that even that delay can be problematic, and then finally comes out in favor directly of allowing open weight models to be available.

And this was also sort of piggybacking on a separate story, which was that late last week, there was a, an open letter that came out, I think officially put together by NVIDIA-