Chamath Explains Why AI is So Unpopular in America: Terrible Communication from Industry Leaders “ ICE is more popular than AI. That's where AI is.” Why is this happening? Three reasons according to @chamath: “Entrepreneurs are A/B testing what it takes to raise money.” “At least some parts of the AI ecosystem have decided that this crazy, scary doomerism is the best way to raise money.” “Where they come out and say, ‘All the jobs will be destroyed; this thing is sentient.’ Anthropic, you know, Dario says that.” “And investors are like, okay, here's $10B, here's $50B, here's $100B.’ Then the investors are like, ‘Hey, where's the revenue?’ And so then they start selling everywhere.” “All of a sudden you flip-flop. You become sort of an unserious, dilettante-like partner to the American government.” “All of that to me is an industry that's still in its very early phases and still figuring out what its place in society is.” “The problem is the following two clips.” Palantir CEO Alex Karp: “ These technologies are dangerous societally. If you are going to disrupt the economic and therefore political power, significantly, of one party's base, and you feel like that's gonna work out politically, you're in an insane asylum.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “ We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity and people buy it from us on a meter…” “If you take those three messaging veins on a spectrum, one is ‘We have a sentient super god, we're the only ones that can protect you from it.’ That's Dario.” “Alex, which is, ‘Hey, hold on a second. You can't have it both ways.’” “And then Sam's, which is, ‘We want to sell tokens as a service.’” ...