Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS Live

Peter Diamandis (0:05)

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Moonshots Live, our inaugural event. Yeah.

It is such an awesome treat to have all of you here and get a chance to meet you guys. Our smiling muscles are exhausted from this morning, but I think we're gonna be going throughout the day. On behalf of Dave Blundin, AWG, Salim, and Emad, it is an awesome pleasure to have you guys here. Yeah, let's give it up.

So we're gonna talk about this, but our mission is to keep you hopeful, optimistic, and to inspire you to find your massive transformative purpose, to choose your Moonshot and make it happen, right? This is life during the Singularity. It's never gonna be any slower. We have the opportunity, each and every one of us, to make the future what we desire. The future is not happening to us. It's what we create, right? Ours is the ability given these superhero technologies enabling us to build, create, and steer that future, right? AI is not a hand grenade. It's a jet pack.

It's an opportunity for us to find problems and solve problems. I define an entrepreneur as someone who finds problems and solve problems. The more entrepreneurs on the planet, the more problems get solved. Do we have challenges? Of course. But that's what we humans do. We find the challenges and we fix them. Please remember that. My hope for you, each and every one of you here today, is to find extraordinary co-founders here in this room. To find those individuals who share your purpose, design Moonshots and execute on them. The ability has never been faster and more capable than it is today.

So by the end of today, if you're not clear what your purpose is, please dig in to find it. And walk away with at least one sentence in your mind. This is what I'm going to build. This is the problem I'm going to solve. And then today or tonight, find three people and speak that statement out loud. When you speak it out loud, you make it real. And guess what? The person you talk to may be your next co-founder, may be your next funder, may be your next partner. Take the time to do that because you can. And this is the room where magic is going to happen. All right. It's time to introduce my Moonshot mates. Let's roll the video.

The question is, how do you build? How do you make things better?

Alexander Wissner-Gross (3:03)

People who were already in the ecosystem now have a super intelligence at their beck and call.

Dave Blundin (3:08)

The storyline that we're capturing here will last for millennia.

Emad Mostaque (3:11)

As a mathematician, GPT 5.6 Pro is the only quality math model.

Salim Ismail (3:16)

All of this automation and AI enablement and cognitive abundance allows us to be deeply, deeply, deeply creative.

Peter Diamandis (3:23)

VideoGen combined with AI is a very powerful force.

Dave Blundin (3:28)

A year from today, we'll all be like, wow, remember how slow it was?

SPEAKER_7 (3:32)

Please give a warm welcome to the Moonshot mates.

Dave Blundin (3:39)

I'm going to call them out one at a time.

Peter Diamandis (3:44)

Our Afghan warlords, Salim Ismail, our superintelligence, Alex Wissner-Gross, our giant, Emad Mostaque, and my fraternity brother. Gentlemen, first of all, I did hug Alex and he is somewhat physically real.

SPEAKER_8 (4:10)

He didn't pinch my cheek. He could be a robot. He is real.

Alexander Wissner-Gross (4:14)

I'm a real boy.

SPEAKER_8 (4:15)

Yes.

Peter Diamandis (4:18)

First of all, wasn't last night amazing? How about give it up for William Shatner, huh?

You know, I'm just blown away by his level of energy. Why is my watch going off? It says I have an emergency call going on. Okay.

SPEAKER_8 (4:39)

Okay. No, I'm okay.

Peter Diamandis (4:43)

I'm okay. Stop it. You know, when technology fails you, it's great.

A lot of news going on. Shall we jump in? Let's do it.

SPEAKER_8 (4:55)

Yeah. What else would we do? So, yeah.

Peter Diamandis (5:01)

All right. Here's my clicker. So, let's open up with the story that's been underlying the last two weeks.

There's been really a fear, you know, a pandemic of fear going on in the planet. We had two weeks ago, we hear, you know, Dario goes on with his blog. Sam Altman comes in and says, I agree. Elon comes in and says, I agree. You know, even Demis comes in and says, I agree. And then two nights ago, just before the Xi-Trump meetings, Sam and Dario were there at the Security Council saying, you know, we're in the midst of an existential threat. But, you know, and just to be clear, I do think there is danger from AI, but I think it's danger from humans using AI for malintent. So what I'd like to do is actually share two videos of some other leaders in industry. Let's talk about this. I want to talk about, you know, but is the fear warranted from AI on its own in a rogue exploit? So let's take a look. The first one is Jensen and some comments from him.