Rampaging AI - 23 May 2026

I listened to the latest All-In podcast on my three-mile walk this AM (beautiful sunny day. Mid - 60's. First warblers along McLeod Creek:

SpaceX’s $2T Case, Nvidia’s Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

I didn't take notes as I walked. I, perhaps like many 80 plus geezers, am obsessed with signs of failing memory. Though I don't take credit for great synthesis or curation of the podcast in the below notes, I'm impressed that I could remember as much as I did while sitting down to write three hours after the fact!

Memorable takeaways (which hardly scratch the surface of the substance of this discussion which I recommend to all):

1. What's behind the growing public resistance to AI?

This question brought me close to home, where, in Utah, public resistance to a proposed mega data center in desert land north of the Great Salt Lake is mounting.

Fear of centralization of power facilitated by AI.

Fear of redistribution of wealth to the top few. A few people become trillionaires while "the rest of us" earn little.

Fear of changes to the nature of sentience itself. Musk is worried about this. He believes human consciousness should remain intact, separate from AI. Larry Page, on the other hand, not so much.

Fear of job loss. Cloudflare's Matthew Prince earns "Retard PR" award for insensitive statement on job cuts.

AI proponents need to become more active in touting AI benefits... e.g. medical breakthroughs.

2. US versus China AI race.

US is nine months ahead of China.

US and China need to come together to build a self-regulation framework. Setting up a government regulatory framework is anathema.

US has court system to restrain out of control AI. Anyone harmed by AI has redress through the courts. Ergo. Don't set up an independent AI regulatory framework.

3. Do we slow down AI development?

That ship has sailed. Progress accelerates.

Development speeds up on regenerative AI systems designed to continuously learn, adapt, self-improve, repair, and optimize themselves over time.

Andrej Karpathy is a key AI operative recently hired by Anthropic to join its pre-training team. This move is seen as a significant talent coup for Anthropic in the competitive frontier AI space. Karpathy will focus on advancing research and development, including using Claude to accelerate pretraining efforts.