Doom or Bloom
Question 1
What do you think AI means for our future—and why?
I think AI means we are heading toward extraordinary abundance: intelligence becoming cheap and widely available, scientific discovery accelerating, and individuals gaining capabilities that once required large organizations. A student could have a world-class tutor, a doctor could use far better diagnostic tools, and a small team could build something that previously took thousands of people. The compounding matters most: better AI helps us do better research, which helps us build better tools, which accelerates progress again.
I’m strongly optimistic about the outcome, but it is not automatic. Alignment is still real work, and iterative deployment gives us valuable feedback—it does not prove that every more powerful system is safe. If monitoring and safeguards cannot stay ahead of capabilities, we should slow or stop. Losing control of AI is unacceptable.
The other unacceptable outcome is concentrating this power in a tiny group. We need broad access, enough infrastructure to make intelligence genuinely abundant, and independent evaluators who can see frontier systems with access comparable to employees. The goal is not simply more capable models. It is a world where people have more agency, can create more, discover more, and live better. If we get safety and distribution right, the economic growth and expansion of human possibility in front of us look astonishing.
