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At 21, Alexandr Wang became the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. Now, at 28 — he just got a lot richer… Meta just spent $14.3B to bring him over to Meta to lead their new superintelligence lab.
But the thing that caught my attention today, was what he said on the Shawn Ryan show.
Wang says he wants to wait until Neuralink or BCIs (brain-computer interfaces) are ready, because they’d have a major advantage being chipped at birth.
I think in a few decades, this will be the biggest problem facing humanity.
To chip… or not to chip.
In this video, I dive into that idea.
Transcript
This is Alexander Wang, the youngest self made billionaire in the worse, and he said something this week that I had to relisten to three times to make sure I heard right. He wants to wait to have kids until Neuralink is ready because the advantage they'd have being born with the chip. Okay. This is my daughter, pride and joy. And my son is due any day no. And brain computer interfaces are actually what worries me the most about their future. Now good, they'll be miraculous from medical application. Treating neurological disorders, restoring vision, and mobility. But as Rank says in this interview, they are are an attack vector. Corporations, state actors, foreign adversaries, whoever can hack into our collective consciousness and have total control. That's obviously pretty bad. Okay. So easy. Just don't get chipped. Well, in the February, if you didn't take steroids as a baseball player, somebody who did was gonna take your contract. When my daughter's in her thirties, not being chipped will be economically disadvantageous. Wang makes the point that AI improvement is gonna so rapidly outpace human innovation that we will need some sort of interlink between our brain and AI to not get left in the dust. It's gonna be pretty critical if we want humans to remain relevant as AI keeps getting better. By the way, Rank knows a thing or two about this stuff. Because of his work at scale, he has an inside scoop on a lot of the big research labs. I think it's part of the reason that Zuck just spent $14,300,000,000 bringing him over to Medeli, their new superintelligence unit. Mind reading and mind control are, like, that is where the technology will go over time. And no, like, any advanced technology, we have to not fuck that up. Good. These conversations, we need to be having at a global scale. I I would love to interview Alexander Wang for this channel if somebody out there can set it up. I really believe that the next ten years are quite possibly the most consequential in the history of our species. And I think Wang will be one of the major players stewarding this decade.
