YouCongress
About Sign up

Comment by Vinod Khosla

Avatar
Venture capitalist; Khosla Ventures founder
The future utopia is ours to invent; the dystopia is ours to choose. [Pessimists paint a future with widespread job loss, social manipulation, erosion of human agency and existential threats from AI — but] these fears are largely unfounded, myopic, and harmful, and they are addressable through societal choices.
Disputed source (2026)
Like Share on X 2mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
AI poses an existential threat to humanity
votes Against
Statement relation verification history Unverified Report this
No statement relation verification comments yet.
Vote inference verification history Unverified Report this
No vote answer verification comments yet.

Quote authenticity verification history

Report this

Quote authenticity comments

Disputed Disputed: I found two separate 2024 Khosla statements, not one verbatim quote at the cited X URL. A mirror of @vkhosla shows only “The future utopia is ours to invent; the dystopia is ours to choose!”, while Khosla Ventures’ essay “AI: Dystopia or Utopia?” (September 20, 2024) contains the later passage about AI fears being “largely unfounded, myopic, and harmful” and “addressable through societal choices.” Traders Union also reports the cited tweet was deleted. So the stored text is a stitched, materially altered composite, and the stored year 2026 is wrong. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed I found secondary evidence that @vkhosla posted the standalone line "The future utopia is ours to invent; the dystopia is ours to choose!" in an X post mirrored by TwStalker and reported by TradersUnion. ([twstalker.com](https://twstalker.com/prcshxnt)) But Khosla Ventures’ official text uses different wording: the full essay says "Pessimists and doomers paint a dystopian future in two parts... these fears are mostly unfounded, likely myopic, alarmist, and actually harmful," and the summary says "I believe these fears are largely unfounded, myopic, and harmful. They are addressable through societal choices." ([khoslaventures.com](https://www.khoslaventures.com/posts/ai-dystopia-or-utopia)) So the submitted quote is a composite/materially altered paraphrase, not a single verbatim quote from the cited source. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
replying to Vinod Khosla