Just dumping the code on GitHub is not open source. Open source is a c — George Hotz

"The fundamental limitation of [computer] cloud is who owns the off-switch."

"Half of these AI alignment problems are just human alignment problems. And thats whats also so scary about the language that they use. Its not the machines you want to align; its me."

"[About AI:] I am scared of these things too. Everyone should be scared of these things. These things are scary. But now you ask about the two possible futures. One where a small "trusted" centralized group of people has them, and the other where everyone has them. And I am much less scared of the second future than the first."

"Sam Altman wont tell you that GPT-4 has 220 billion parameters and is a 16 weight mixture-model with 8 sets of weights."

"I took a political approach at Comma too that I think is pretty interesting. I think Elon [Musk] takes the same political approach. You know, Google had no politics, and what ended up happening is the absolute worst kind of politics took over."

"My central thesis about the world is there are things that centralize power and theyre bad, and there are things that decentralize power and theyre good. Everything I can do to help decentralice power Id like to do."