Eddy Lazzarin
The a16z Show
The Case Against an AI Pause | Eddy Lazzarin
- Published
- September 24, 2026
- Duration
- 27:49
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 30, 2026
Discusses ai.
Summary
a16z crypto General Partner Eddy Lazzarin joins Theo Jaffee on MTS to debate the increasingly prominent calls to slow AI development and whether the current safety conversation is conflating very different kinds of risk.Eddy argues that the debate puts too much emphasis on speculative superintelligence and not enough on the costs of delaying useful techno…
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a16z crypto General Partner Eddy Lazzarin joins Theo Jaffee on MTS to debate the increasingly prominent calls to slow AI development and whether the current safety conversation is conflating very different kinds of risk.Eddy argues that the debate puts too much emphasis on speculative superintelligence and not enough on the costs of delaying useful technology. Rather than treating every AI failure as evidence of an alignment problem, he makes the case for familiar tools like cybersecurity, accou
Themes
- ai