People Regulating AI are the Ones Who Struggled with High School Maths [Video]

Naval Ravikant, a renowned entrepreneur and thinker, recently expressed sharp criticism of the efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI), equating such attempts to the suppression of mathematical innovation. 

“These are the same kids who were scared of maths in high school and are now writing regulations to prevent other kids from doing maths,” he said. 

Ravikant believes that restricting AI development stifles one of humanity’s last remaining sources of innovation. His critique underscores a growing divide between those driving technological advancement and policymakers who, according to him, lack technical comprehension.

“These are the people who literally do not know how these things work… They are going to show up and say you can’t run this computation these many times. Are you going to arrest people for doing mathematics?” he added, agitated.

Ravikant’s scepticism stems from his belief in the interconnectedness of knowledge and creativity. “If you limit computers and computation, you have frozen innovation across all domains, not just …