Quotesby GlyphReid Hoffman quotes on AI, with sources
Co-founder, LinkedIn; partner, Greylock · 11 quotes · latest Sep 16, 2026
- AI will sort the world the same way: those who harness it effectively will gain cultural and economic power, and those who don’t will become subject to forces they do not control.
- An absolute moratorium on AI development by the well-intentioned shifts technological power toward less accountable hands, giving bad actors and hostile nations, like China, greater influence over systems Americans will increasingly depend on.
- As AI technology accelerates development and economic precarity increases, the decisions we make in the next 36 months are crucial; we are setting a course that will determine the winners and losers, both domestically and internationally.
- When the people building this technology say your job, your children’s future, and maybe your life are on the line, they cannot then ask the public to welcome AI on faith.
- In fact, it’s pretty clear that AI is the only technology that makes a highly complex but still somehow coordinated planet even thinkable.
- But now with AI, we don’t need more humans to respond to more alerts or review more code.
- In asymmetric warfare, offense gets cheaper, more distributed, and more numerous, while defense stays expensive, centralized, and designed for the last war.
- Put plainly: a state-level actor used to need thousands of engineers to go after one system. Now anyone can summon thousands of agents to go after thousands of systems, for next to nothing in cost.
- AI democratizes expertise, which is something different: knowledge operationalized, brought to bear on your particular situation at the moment you need it.
- As much as the increases in AI proficiency are prompting layoffs and reshaping the job market now, I believe that AI will be a net-positive force on job creation, because of all the ways it will empower entrepreneurship, accelerate innovation, and attain new levels of productivity and efficiency.
- More specifically, I believe it will become a norm, in the way that smartphones have become a norm, for billions of people worldwide to have a designated AI health advisor, an AI legal advisor, and a general-purpose AI tutor that they regularly consult with as they navigate their lives.
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