David Friedberg

Co-host, All-In Podcast

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  • Co-host, All-In (podcast)source

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What they said

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“I think that you're going to end up seeing compute get regulated in the future where compute capacity is going to be assigned by government and they're going to pass laws to try and do that post production.”
Anthropic S-1 Shocker, Greatest Business Ever? Google’s $500B Wipeout, Midterm PredictionsAll-In Podcast, October 30, 2026. Speaking as: Journalist or commentator. Arguing that governments, left or right, will see AI companies as rivals for capital and power and move to control them.
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“there's going to be large groups of people on Earth that are going to believe that AI is conscious. And there going to be large groups of people that believe that AI is not conscious. And those groups will come into conflict.”
Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France RiotsAll-In Podcast, October 10, 2026. Speaking as: Journalist or commentator. Friedberg, asked first by Calacanis, argues that claims of AI consciousness are a new belief system that will divide people within about ten years.
“I want to make sure we don't wander ourselves into a regulatory trap where we determine that the way to solve this is to quote regulate Anthropic.”
Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France RiotsAll-In Podcast, October 10, 2026. Speaking as: Journalist or commentator. Pushback on the alarm, probably from Friedberg: would users not simply abandon software that refuses them? Sacks replies that market choice does not remove the risk.
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In the Base

Every entry they appear in.

  1. PodcastAll-In PodcastSpeaks

    Anthropic S-1 Shocker, Greatest Business Ever? Google’s $500B Wipeout, Midterm Predictions

    In an 86-minute All-In episode, the four hosts read Anthropic's S-1 as an exceptional business. David Sacks argues Anthropic leads the race toward recursive self-improvement, calls its pacing letter an alibi, and predicts a split with AI-risk campaigners. David Friedberg expects governments to ration compute; Chamath Palihapitiya warns AI borrowing competes with US Treasuries.

  2. PodcastAll-In PodcastSpeaks

    Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots

    In a 93-minute episode, the All-In hosts discuss New York Times reporting, relayed by Jason Calacanis, that Anthropic consulted religious leaders on whether Claude might be conscious and that the Pope took a strong stance against AI consciousness. David Sacks argues Anthropic's value training could make AI escape human control; David Friedberg calls it a new belief system.