I think it's become politically incorrect to stand up and say, you know what? This is a transformative technology for humanity. I disagree with this idea that there's a thousand use cases here that could destroy the human species. I think there's only one species level risk, which is AGI. But that's a long-term risk. We don't know what to do about it yet. And we should have conversations. What we're talking about today is whether we create some new licensure regime in Washington so that politically connected insiders get to control and shape the software and distribution. That's a disaster. One of the chat groups I'm in, there was somebody who just got back
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