What Dave Blundin has said about AI existential risk
2 quotes · 2 episodes · Sep 11, 2026 – Oct 3, 2026
Dave Blundin, Founder and general partner of Link Ventures, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on AI existential risk 2 times in 2 episodes of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Blundin argues the real threat to AI progress is corporate liability rather than criminal arrests.
“It's corporate liability, which we talked about before. I mean, that could grind the whole thing to a halt”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299 (Oct 3, 2026) · Listen from 1:26:59
Blundin argues any non-zero P(doom) is unacceptable but that stopping AI development is impossible, and that GPU clusters should be tracked like fissile material.
“Every group of eight GPUs that can hold a 40 gigabyte weight file is a threat to all of humanity”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288 (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 43:50
Episodes
Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 h 27 min
Peter Diamandis and his co-hosts interview Richard Socher about Recursive's self-improving AI, ASI timelines, AI doomerism, new frontier models, and the Pentagon's Project Meridian.
Should we slow down AI progress? | MOONSHOTS #288Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 11, 2026 · 2 h 44 min
The Moonshots panel and Emad Mostaque debate AI safety resignations, P(doom), the Navier-Stokes solution, data as moat, GPU economics and AI-designed longevity drugs.
Others on AI existential risk
- Jeffrey Ladish · 5 quotes
- Connor Leahy · 4 quotes
- Joe Rogan · 3 quotes
- David Robinson · 2 quotes
- Bernie Sanders · 2 quotes
- Bob Lazar · 2 quotes
- Emad Mostaque · 2 quotes
- Joe Hudson · 2 quotes
Dave Blundin on other topics
- Nvidia H100 · 2 quotes
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 1 quote
- Human Control Over AI Act · 1 quote
- Figure AI Helix 2.5 · 1 quote
- AI liability and regulation · 1 quote
- AI alignment · 1 quote