a16z crypto General Partner Eddy Lazzarin joins Theo Jaffee on MTS to debate the increasingly prominent calls to slow AI development and whether the current safety conversation is conflating very different kinds of risk.Eddy argues that the debate puts too much emphasis on speculative superintelligence and not enough on the costs of delaying useful technology. Rather than treating every AI failure as evidence of an alignment problem, he makes the case for familiar tools like cybersecurity, accountability, liability, market incentives, and stronger technical controls.They also discuss whether AI models can develop reputations for trustworthiness, the risks of concentrating oversight among a small group of evaluators, and why Eddy thinks the collision between Silicon Valley’s AI debates and broader politics could fundamentally reshape the conversation over the next year.Resources:Follow Eddy Lazzarin on X:<a href="https://x.com/eddylazzarin" rel="noopener noreferrer"> https://x.com/eddylazzarin</a>Follow Theo Jaffee on X:<a href="https://x.com/theojaffee" rel="noopener noreferrer"> https://x.com/theojaffee</a>Follow MTS on X:<a href="https://x.com/mtslive" rel="noopener noreferrer"> https://x.com/mtslive</a>
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