If the term “Pandora’s box” was ever applicable to a scientific breakthrough, the Manhattan Project’s detonation of the first atomic bomb in the summer of 1945 would have to be a frontrunner alongside genetic editing, super colliders, and artificial intelligence.
This is why I find his perspective credible and fascinating.
He’s looking to find what the technology really is best at, what it buys and at what trade-off/risk. It’s because he’s the opposite of a shiny-things driven early adopter that any insight he has into where AI can truly expand the envelope is intriguing.