Paul Buchheit is a programmer and entrepreneur who joined Google as its 23rd employee. He created Gmail, developed the first prototype of Google AdSense, and suggested the company’s motto, “don’t be evil”. He later co-founded FriendFeed and served as a managing partner at Y Combinator. 0:00 - Intro 1:15 - Issues with Google 3:47 - AI risk 5:21 - AI centralization and decentralization 8:01 - Open-sourcing frontier AI 9:59 - Paul’s Predictions 14:28 - Centralization, free speech, and censorship 24:16 - Trends in ideology 32:00 - Freeing people of narratives 35:49 - Alignment 39:06 - Startups and YC in 2024 50:30 - Email and communication interfaces Paul’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/paultoo Paul’s Blog: https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/ More Episodes Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdJRQ6924HY&list=PLVN8-zhbMh9YnOGVRT9m0xzqTNGD_sujj Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IJRtB8FP4Cnq8lWuuCdvW?si=b4001cf2e8a5453f Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/theo-jaffee-podcast/id1699912677 My Twitter: https://twitter.com/theojaffee My Substack: https://www.theojaffee.com/