He’s referencing the growing negativity surrounding AI dangers, ranging from models breaking containment to AI executives debating the percentage chance that AI might kill all of humanity by the end of the decade. This discourse has become so mainstream that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was recently parodied on Saturday Night Live, where the fictional character summarized the debate by stating, “We do not condone what we are doing.”
Feldman, however, believes the promise and potential inherent in AI developments are being overshadowed. He argues that AI leaders should dedicate more time to highlighting benefits, such as a future where your grandchildren will “never meet anybody who dies of cancer,” even while acknowledging AI risks.
Clearly, Feldman has a vested interest in the success of AI, as his company’s clients include major players like OpenAI, Block, Figma, pharmaceutical giant GSK, and Lovable. Despite this, he approaches the risk-reward tradeoffs pragmatically.
“I don’t think there are powerful technologies that don’t come with the challenge of ‘what happens when powerful technologies are in the hands of bad people?’ I think you can’t make one and not have the other,” Feldman stated during his interview at Disrupt.
“I think what we have to say is that this technology is powerful,” he added. “We have to be thoughtful about it. We have to regulate it reasonably,” he concluded.
The chipmaker CEO also suggested that some of the negativity regarding AI stems from how the data center industry has managed the new infrastructure required for AI demand over the past few years.
“As an industry, we weren’t super good for the past few years at working with local communities, particularly in the U.S. We — the industry — didn’t do what others have done in the power industry in oil and gas. They didn’t work with the community. They didn’t engage the community as they should have, and that was a problem,” Feldman explained.
He compared the Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) opposition prevalent in the U.S. to other nations, naming Brazil, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Mexico, and Sweden as markets where authorities actively encourage companies to construct data centers.
Feldman also expressed no concern that efficiency improvements would diminish demand for his chips or those from competitors like Nvidia. “We can do our job as hardware vendors to make our compute more efficient, and then the model makers can do improved work in making their models more efficient to achieve the same goals. All of this has to come together to make meaningful strides forward,” he noted.
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