Chris Dixon: belief

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…If I ask you how will AI change politics, what’s the most confident prediction you have? [laughs] Well, that’s a good question. I’d love to ask you a question on this. Well, a couple things. One, I think there’s going to be a lot of political drama around AI in the next couple of years, first of all. This is not AI changing politics; it’s politics potentially changing AI. Maybe it’s a little bit of a different question. I think there’re going to be issues around copyright, safety. I believe these are not going to be settled in the court. They will be settled in Congress. They’re too important. I just went through this with crypto. We just had four years of regulatory struggles in the courts, and now it’s going to probably be decided in Congress. I think ultimately the same thing will happen in AI because it’s just too important. That’s one topic. Another thing I think about is how many problems in the world are intelligence problems versus political or coordination or regulatory problems? Building housing is a hot topic right now. Does more intelligence help us build better housing? Probably the opposite because the smarter people lobby harder to stop it.…

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