Marc Andreesen on when he met with the government in May '24. He was told not to fund any AI start ups because government plans to control AI, to which he said:
“I don’t understand how you’re going to lock this down so much, because like, the math for, you know, AI, is like out there and it’s being taught everywhere.”
And the government said in response:
“…during the cold war, we classified entire areas of physics and took them out of the research community, and like entire branches of physics basically went dark and didn’t proceed. And if we decide we need to, we’re going to do the same thing to the math underneath AI.”