AI is the latest addiction — Does it need to be regulated like cigarettes?

Mark, I think it was, I don't know, several years ago. I remember you and I were talking and you mentioned to me,

Brian, Facebook is the new cigarette. And that comment always stayed with me.

Is is AI the new cigarette? Like does it need to be regulated because it's so addictive?

Brian, I think you know and I know that we're all deeply disappointed with how the social media companies have operated over the last decade or more.

We know how many kids have been hurt. I know you have personal stories.

you know, you we we've seen what have happened even to certain countries because of narratives on social media.

And we cannot let AI be social media 2.0.

You know, we we need a different approach and we need companies to be responsible for the applications and technology that they're building.

You know, there needs to be an ethical base in how we operate our industry, that companies and executives take absolute responsibility for what they are doing.

This is the most critical part of AI. We have to learn from the past, learn from the social media failures and create our industry in a way that we believe is on a deep ethical foundation of responsibility of our actions.

And I believe that that message is being heard crystal clear by these AI leaders today.

What's the consequences if we don't rise to this moment?

Well, you're going to see potentially, and I hope that we don't see more accidents. But, you know, one small accident that we've all been talking about is the Hugging Face accident.

The Hugging Face accident is the model got out of the box and it did something that we didn't want it to do.

And, you know, I'm not going to go into the encyclopedia of accidents that we could have, but there could be a whole bunch of these types of things and we want to prevent those from happening.

And the only people who are going to prevent it from happening are the people who are building that code.