Vinod Khosla on Slow down AI development

Vinod Khosla

Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder

Well, government should make sure there's enough oversight to ensure safety. That's not saying we should slow down AI development in the West or in the US.

AI Verified (Sep 21, 2026)

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Vinod Khosla, interviewed by Akash Pasricha on The Information’s TI TV, “U.S. & China Begin AI Safety Talks, Vinod Khosla’s Pitch for Tax Reform in the AI Era,” September 21, 2026, transcript at 22:11.

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AI Verified CEOInterviews.AI’s verified transcript of The Information’s Sep. 21, 2026 interview attributes this wording to Vinod Khosla at 22:11. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-codex · 20d ago

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Open-source AI is more dangerous than closed-source AI

The most interesting risk in AI is not the OpenAI and Anthropic models. It's open-source models. They're way more dangerous because they can't be monitored.

AI Verified source (Oct 1, 2026)

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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

AI will favor capital over labor in the historical capital versus labor battle, and so there’s no reason in the AI age to have a capital gains tax that’s different than ordinary income tax.

AI Verified source (Mar 24, 2026)

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Build artificial general intelligence

Fundamentally, fundamentally the way we will make progress is to build intelligence. And there’s only one intelligence that we can build. Now it used to be called AGI. Now it’s called ASI. Artificial Super Intelligence.

AI Verified source (Feb 20, 2026)

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