Aidan Gomez quotes on AI, with sources
CEO, Cohere · 6 quotes · latest September 2026
- Here is the question nobody is asking clearly enough: should a handful of select, market-dominant AI companies from Silicon Valley get to define the rules and safety standards of a generational technology for the entire world?
- No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology...
- Once again using fear under the pretext of protecting the public, these oligopolies are now requesting to bend competition rules and be permitted to dictate the terms for everyone else.
- The problem is that there is a list at all, when the decisions being made reach every company, every government, and every citizen who never got asked.
- The same capabilities that find vulnerabilities in your code can find them in someone else's, and cyber offense is getting cheaper faster than defenses are getting better.
- Within a generation, the way we discover medicine, manage power grids, and secure our national infrastructure will be completely transformed.
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