[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  The All-In Podcast [@theallinpod](/creator/twitter/theallinpod) on x 515.2K followers Created: 2025-02-15 03:55:47 UTC Naval Ravikant: "I'm not scared of AI. I'm scared of what a very small number of people who control AI do to the rest of us." On E215, @naval broke down his main AI fear: consolidated control enabled by regulatory capture. "If you really think you're going to create God, do you want to put God on a leash with one entity controlling God?" "That to me is the real fear." "I'm not scared of AI. I'm scared of what a very small number of people who control AI do to the rest of us, 'for our own good.'" "I'm not an AI doomer. I don't think AI is going to end the world. That's a separate conversation." "But, there's this religion that comes along in many faces, which is that, 'Oh, climate change is going to end the world. AI is going to end the world. Asteroid's going to end the world. COVID-19 is going to end the world.' And it just has a way of fixating your attention, right? "It captures everybody's attention at once. So it's a very seductive thing." "And I think in the case of AI, it's really been overplayed by incentive bias. Motivated reasoning by the companies who are ahead and they want to pull up the ladder behind them." "I think they generally believe that there is safety risk, but I think they're motivated to believe in those safety risks and then they pass that along." "But it's kind of a weird position because they have to say, 'Oh, it's so dangerous that you shouldn't just let open-source go at it. And you should let just a few of us work with you on it. But it's not so dangerous that a private company can't own the whole thing.'" "Because if it was truly the Manhattan Project, if they were building nuclear weapons, you wouldn't want one company to own that." "So to me, the real issue boils down to, how do you push AI forward while not having just a very small number of players control the entire thing?"  XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [a very](/topic/a-very) [leash](/topic/leash) [coins ai](/topic/coins-ai) [allin](/topic/allin) [Post Link](https://x.com/theallinpod/status/1890610936769360052)
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The All-In Podcast @theallinpod on x 515.2K followers
Created: 2025-02-15 03:55:47 UTC
Naval Ravikant: "I'm not scared of AI. I'm scared of what a very small number of people who control AI do to the rest of us."
On E215, @naval broke down his main AI fear: consolidated control enabled by regulatory capture.
"If you really think you're going to create God, do you want to put God on a leash with one entity controlling God?"
"That to me is the real fear."
"I'm not scared of AI. I'm scared of what a very small number of people who control AI do to the rest of us, 'for our own good.'"
"I'm not an AI doomer. I don't think AI is going to end the world. That's a separate conversation."
"But, there's this religion that comes along in many faces, which is that, 'Oh, climate change is going to end the world. AI is going to end the world. Asteroid's going to end the world. COVID-19 is going to end the world.' And it just has a way of fixating your attention, right?
"It captures everybody's attention at once. So it's a very seductive thing."
"And I think in the case of AI, it's really been overplayed by incentive bias. Motivated reasoning by the companies who are ahead and they want to pull up the ladder behind them."
"I think they generally believe that there is safety risk, but I think they're motivated to believe in those safety risks and then they pass that along."
"But it's kind of a weird position because they have to say, 'Oh, it's so dangerous that you shouldn't just let open-source go at it. And you should let just a few of us work with you on it. But it's not so dangerous that a private company can't own the whole thing.'"
"Because if it was truly the Manhattan Project, if they were building nuclear weapons, you wouldn't want one company to own that."
"So to me, the real issue boils down to, how do you push AI forward while not having just a very small number of players control the entire thing?"
XXXXXXX engagements
