What Dave Blundin has said about Artificial general intelligence

3 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 22, 2026

Dave Blundin, Founder and general partner of Link Ventures, co-host of Moonshots, has been quoted on Artificial general intelligence 3 times in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on September 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Blundin advises computer science students to move toward manufacturing because software careers are being automated while hardware will last much longer.
“Software is cooked, but hardware will go for many, many years”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293 (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 21:47
Blundin says managing large numbers of AI agents is strikingly similar to managing large numbers of people and represents a wide-open opportunity.
“trying to get a thousand agents to do something constructive together is shockingly similar to all my experiences trying to manage a thousand people to do something constructive together”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293 (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 40:50
Blundin locates the risk in the next few years of human misuse, arms races and weaponization rather than in AI takeover, and gives a 99.9% chance of a good outcome beyond that.
“it's not AI, you know, taking over the world risk. It's human use of AI. It's the arms race with China”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis: Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293 (Sep 22, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:22

Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Sep 22, 2026 · 1 h 27 min
Diamandis, Blundin, Wissner-Gross and Ismail answer audience questions on AI safety, universities, robotics, longevity, Europe and abundance.