Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293
Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin, and Alexander Wissner-Gross answer live questions on AI safety, governance, career strategy, and where builders should focus first.
The gist
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The biggest near-term AI risk is human misuse, such as drone warfare and cyberattacks, not a rogue AI; Diamandis says abundance is 90%+ likely within 10 years.
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In labor-intensive industries, tackle white-collar transaction costs like planning and scheduling before factory robots to unlock 10-30% margin improvement right away.
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If your AI productivity has risen 2-5x but your pay has not, shift to equity or shareholding so you capture the gains that fall to the bottom line.
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Deploy AI applications in faster-moving jurisdictions outside the US first, then bring them back once proven, to take advantage of regulatory speed differences.
Peter Diamandis recommends it
"We've got 25 seats left. You can go to Moonshots Live to grab them. There's going to be no better way to absorb this and the community and the networking you're going to have is going to be incredibly powerful."
▶ Play at 9:51"If you like sci-fi, read Accelerando by Charlie Stross, which is I think the single best sci-fi treatment of what's in the process of happening right now."
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"If you like sci-fi, read Accelerando by Charlie Stross, which is I think the single best sci-fi treatment of what's in the process of happening right now."
"We've got 25 seats left. You can go to Moonshots Live to grab them. There's going to be no better way to absorb this and the community and the networking you're going to have is..."
"Alex does a phenomenal job of reporting on all of the AI events. Like if you listen to Innermost Loop and every event that happens, he covers it."
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2 picks · guest
"Alex does a phenomenal job of reporting on all of the AI events. Like if you listen to Innermost Loop and every event that happens, he covers it."
"Within open weights, you might want to start with the new GLM model which has fewer parameters but it's still a very long context window which gives you more flexibility. It's l..."
Alexander Wissner-Gross
1 pick · guest
"If you like sci-fi, read Accelerando by Charlie Stross, which is I think the single best sci-fi treatment of what's in the process of happening right now."
Peter Diamandis
1 pick · host
"We've got 25 seats left. You can go to Moonshots Live to grab them. There's going to be no better way to absorb this and the community and the networking you're going to have is..."
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