Podbit · Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
The EU just mandated infrared eye-tracking cameras in every new car — aiming to save 25,000 lives by 2038. The problem: by 2038 full self-driving will have made this entirely redundant. A 2011 BlackBerry outage proved that simply removing phones from the equation cut accident rates by 40%. This is legislation theater at its worst.
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Peter reports that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act — framed as the nation's strongest AI accountability law — targeting frontier labs generating more than $500 million annually. It mandates 72-hour incident reporting and annual independent safety audits, and was notably supported by Anthropic. Alex frames this charitably: these laws set a floor that frontier labs are already far exceeding in their internal practices, making it essentially a placeholder that may shape a future federal framework more favorably for the industry. Dave notes the law doesn't take effect for 18 months — by singularity timescales, essentially forever. Salim calls it a step from 'declaration to evidentiary' governance, which he broadly supports even if he'd prefer federal or global scope. Alex then raises the AI Futures Project's 'Plan A' document — a proposal to delay superintelligence development until 2040 through mutually assured destruction, bombing unauthorized chip foundries or data centers. Peter calls it 'caveman thinking.' Alex says he's not a fan either [1] — Peter Diamandis "Illinois AI Safety Act targets labs earning $500M+/year: Illinois's AI Safety Measures Act targets frontier labs generating over $500 milli…" 1:06:00 [2].
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