#21: AI Regulation, War and the Future of the American Tech Stack

The gang shares predictions around AI for the year ahead. Are we at digital war and don't even know it? Thoughts on defining an "American Tech Stack" and digital citizenship to defend against foreign speech and bots - and how to think about academia in an era where universities and research are no longer disconnected from politics and business.

Discussed

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Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence

⁠FACT SHEET: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence⁠

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Show Notes

[00:00:00] Opening

[00:01:37] Halloween and the Greeking Out Podcast

[00:03:17] Brit hosted a Howl-O-Ween Dog Costume Contest.

[00:03:36] Investing in Dog DNA Startups

[00:05:55] Product Idea: AI Dog

[00:06:25] AI Ninja Tricks

[00:07:50] The Big Debate: The Biden Executive Order on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence"⁠⁠

[00:10:36] We need National Tech Stacks.

[00:15:28] Every single Federal Agency was directed to appoint a Head of AI.

[00:18:35] Lack of transparency at AI.gov?

[00:19:31] The difference between academic research and application has collapsed and it is dangerous.

[00:20:50] OpenAI took research from the Google world and commercialized it.

[00:21:20] National AI research should be like the Manhattan Project.

[00:22:39] The Executive Order invokes the Defense Production Act.

[00:24:03] We have an AI War already playing out on American Turf and it is called TikTok.

[00:24:22] We are at war in the technological world and we have no defenses in terms of how this is playing out on our home front.

[00:25:20] We are going to look back in 20 years and realize "Oh my God, we were actually at war, and we were being assaulted on the home front but we don't even fully recognize the attack."

[00:25:30] What is going to happen in 2024?

[00:26:10] Silicon Valley technologist are good at problems where a "solution" is the goal, but are uniquely bad at Washington style problems where "balance" is the goal.

[00:27:29] We need to take the American Tech Stack very very seriously.

[00:28:35] TikTok's Larry Ellison Proposal for continuing to exist in the US.

[00:29:20] Why aren't conservatives demanding action on this?

[00:29:53] If we are in a war, where are we in it?

[00:30:16] American Identity and Digital Citizenship

[00:32:00] What is the American Tech Stack really?

[00:37:14] A hypothetical question: How would you change a government you don't like with AI?

[00:39:32] Does digital identity really have to be tied to a single country?

[00:41:48] Our generation has the most skewed view of globalization in history.

[00:45:50] Where did this conversation start? It started with AI.

[00:46:50] AI Predictions for the next year.

[00:56:04] Closing