The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Vinod Khosla emerges in this interview as a quintessential Visionary whose thinking operates decades ahead of conventional discourse. He reframes AI not merely as a productivity tool but as a civilizational force capable of delivering material abundance to all of humanity by 2050, a thesis he has held since before AI was a mainstream concept.
“Add Santill Road, I would say that people, like there's a less globalism in Silicon Valley than I would expect for what has been the frontier creator of technologies. And there's been this kind of like build and they will come philosophy.”
“So, you don't feel that you were early to those, or is this the time now to really invest? One of the things you brought up nuclear fusion, this is the tech you've invested in, Sam Altman just announced the fact, Bezos, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates. Talk about fusion, for example, which Mark Benioff has called the Holy Grail.”
“Be back in a minute. You in March, just before TikTok CEO testified before Congress, you hosted a dinner with Peter Thiel in DC for investors and lawmakers to press China as a technoeconomic threat, how Speaker Kevin McCarthy was there. What was your goal?”
“Can take his word for what he's saying. Okay, let's talk about government's role in regulating AI. It's something that's been much discussed around the world. There's efforts in China, everywhere else. U.S. it's a little slower, as always.”
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