Chris Dixon: belief

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…Maybe without open source we only have two countries left in the world, the US and China, if you want an argument for open source. Economic planning seems like an obvious thing that you would involve AI in. That just seems like one of the first things you’d want to do in government eventually, is have AI set your interest rates to the extent you’re a central planned economy, decide on your production schedules and pricing and such. If you bought an economic planning AI module off the shelf, presumably it would be pretty opinionated on how to do that, and the person who creates those opinions would have immense influence. I think those countries will insist. I think that one of the reasons that open source will eventually be one of the two dominant models, competitive with proprietary AI, partly because of questions like this. I think these governments and a lot of companies will demand open source. Even then, it seems there’s room for intermediaries. If you just passed DeepSeek or Llama over to a relatively poor government — again, take the case of Peru — they need a McKinsey-like entity — which is maybe the AI company itself — to come in and tell them how to use it, how to integrate it with their systems. Does this mean American soft power has just won? It’s either America or China?…

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