# Keith Teare

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The Scarlet Summer of Our Luddite Discontent: Opening Up on AI Shame & Anthropic Watermarks

“I don’t feel any shame at all recruiting an army of AI agents to help me accomplish my goals. But I think society is trying to make me feel shame.” — Keith Teare   Welcome to the summer of America’s luddite discontent. Not only are left and right calling for an AI ban, but tech loathing has even ‮…

Our Seven Trillion Dollar Future: Dave McClure & Aman Verjee Burst the AI Pessimism Bubble

“Anthropic will be a $3 trillion company, SpaceX $2 trillion, and OpenAI $1 to $1.5 trillion by Q2 of next year.” — Dave McClure   Yesterday, Keith Teare and I debated the circularity of the AI economy. Today, two of Silicon Valley’s most experienced investors, Dave McClure and Aman Verjee, not on‮…

We Are (Not) the Champions: Why Silicon Valley Isn’t Providing an AI Human Dividend

What’s the truth about our AI future? Our guests have different takes. On the one hand, Dave McClure and Aman Verjee predict a $7 trillion future for just three AI startups in 2027. On the other, Salima Bhimani doesn’t believe that Silicon Valley has the imagination to create the moonshot to addre‮…

Lord of the Swarms: Who to Trust in an Age of AI Agents?

“I trust them to kiss the government’s ass. I don’t trust them to serve me.” — Keith Teare   Who to trust in an age of AI agents? Especially when it seems as if these swarming agents — akin to the gang of adolescents in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies — are developing minds of their own.   At ‮…

Shut Up or Shut Down? Amodei, Altman, Musk & the Great AI Freakout

Something unprecedented happened yesterday. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei — rivals who rarely agree on anything — all called for an AI slowdown. It came after more and more doomsday warnings from experts which seem to have finally woken Congress up to AI’s potentially existential threat.‮…

Are the Doomers Now Doomed? A Bad Week for the AI Apocalypse.

Last week we were panicking about a supposedly imminent AI apocalypse. Seven days later, Keith Teare argues, government oversight is about as far away as it could possibly be. That’s because Musk, Altman and Amodei agreed to police themselves and test each other’s models. The doomers, says the pub‮…

From RealNames to TechCrunch: Decades Building the Future of Tech | Keith Teare

Keith Teare is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and technology pioneer who has spent decades at the forefront of the internet and startup world. He founded RealNames, one of the early companies working to make the internet easier to navigate, and later co-founded TechCrunch, which became one of th‮…

Eureka in Silicon Valley! Richard Socher on Why AI Will Unlock a New Scientific Renaissance

“There’s no realistic scenario where AI wipes out all of humanity. It’s like a mix of sci-fi.” — Richard Socher   Eighteen months ago, when he last came on the show, the German-born but San Francisco-based AI whizz kid Richard Socher was running You.com. He’s now also the co-founder of Recursive, ‮…

And Now For Something Completely Similar: Untangling the Power from the Pretense of Our AI Circus

Lenin supposedly said there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. This wasn’t one of those weeks.   It might have looked like a historic week. The AI circus rolled into the UN with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei addressing the Security Council on the peril facing “humanit‮…

Do We All Really Need a Digital Chief of Staff? Grok Bot, Dot and Muse Say Yes (Duh)

Everyone, That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare breathlessly announced this week, is about to be offered an AI personal assistant. Or, to put it in Silicon-Valley-speak, a digital chief of staff. OpenAI unveiled Dot at its developer day. Meta already has Muse, Musk has Grok Bot, and a British st‮…