A venture capitalist who visited Hiroshima draws a parallel between nuclear weapons and AI, arguing both force humanity to confront existential stakes. He calls on CEOs, politicians, and religious leaders to recognize our shared humanity and guide AI development away from catastrophe.
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I know we're talking about venture capital and money and AI, but this is about humanity. I actually just visited Hiroshima 6 months ago thinking about this personally. I took my family, my kids, my wife, and yeah, this is a moment that we might face, but it doesn't have to be that ugly this time. There doesn't have to be as many human casualties, like literally or figuratively this time. That's up to us. One of the fundamental things that I've learned from my 30-year career is that no matter our differences, Charles Cormier, there we always share more in common than we have different. I mean, there's differences between us, but those differences don't need to be our collective undoing. And we've allowed that to be the case too much in the past. And we, we're going to have an opportunity to choose again here in the future. These differences are meant to bring diversity and beauty to this lived experience, and I believe that they do, but they're not they don't have to be our collective undoing. So it's critical for CEOs, for politicians, for religious leaders to remember that no matter our differences, the human condition comes for us all. We all share more alike than we do different. And I believe that again, paradoxically, this cosmic mirror of AI can help us remember that at the much more fundamental level, there is a, I'll say divine in quotes, a divine unity Unity, unity, or oneness shared amongst the Brotherhood of Man.
