Kingsley I. Ndoh

Founder & CEO @HuroneAI: On a mission to make AI-driven precision cancer care accessible to everyone, everywhere| Fac @uwdgh. Affiliate @FredHutch

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

While I’m no fan of socialism or arbitrary confiscations of wealth, I can see why Bernie Sanders’ proposal (for the government to take a 50% stake in AI companies) resonates, including with many on the right.

The CEOs of the leading AI labs have told us repeatedly that they will cause massive job loss. This is not a story that I believe, nor does the data bear it out, but this is what they have told us. Similarly, they have hyped the risks of AI without putting an equal or greater emphasis on the benefits or readily available mitigations.

Conservatives have another fear. The employees of the leading labs claim to be philanthropic, but what we’ve seen is massive enrichment of NGOs advancing an agenda at odds with traditional values, fueling a revolution against our cities and communities. Soros-maxxing is not charity in our book.

Anthropic and OpenAI have established themselves as Public Benefit Corporations. What could be more in the public benefit than using half the wealth generated by these companies (which trained for free on the collective knowledge of humanity) to pay down the national debt? There is no ideological bias in that philanthropy.

Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. I could almost support the Sanders proposal as a stupidity tax.

There’s just one problem. Nationalization of AI will accelerate the corporate-government fusion we’re already sliding toward. Conservatives rightly fear a Central Bank Digital Currency. They ought to be even more concerned about Central Government AI — a system with even more totalistic power over information, decision-making, and human behavior.

We saw how social media was weaponized to censor conservatives (including President Trump) in the last Democrat administration. The definition of “trust & safety” expanded to mean protecting the public from supposed psychological harms, micro-aggressions, and disinformation (you know, like hearing conservative ideas or true facts about Covid).

That “safety” agenda as applied to AI will be vastly more powerful and Orwellian. AI won’t just moderate posts; it will curate reality — with the ability to rewrite history, enforce ideological conformity, influence policy at scale, mass surveil Americans, and condition the benefits of the many systems it controls on approved behavior.

America won’t win the AI race if we beat China but end up with a CCP-style social credit system in the U.S. — and that is the danger as the government becomes more deeply involved in AI development and assumes direct ownership and control.

Conservatives are right to fear where this is all headed but ought to think more carefully about how regulations they are flirting with now (that are widely celebrated among those with a long history of lust for Big Government) will be used against them the next time a Democrat administration is in power.

[Kingsley I. Ndoh @KINSDR]

@docneto @dozieohaeri ??? A Financier would do the feasibility stuy??? What is your grouse though? Makes no sense!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Concerning. https://t.co/psLFMyNJpr

[Kingsley I. Ndoh @KINSDR]

@docneto This is actually an own goal for you - basically pointing the gun at your self. It is very unlikely that an employee that was well taken care of would make such statement. It is by far better to have fewer well-paid employees than to have 3x more with poor pay.

[David Daines @daviddorg]

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks

Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains

That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.

[Nima Owji @nima_owji]

WHAT FEATURES DID X AND XAI ADD IN 2025?

2025 is almost over and both X and xAI has have been cooking!

Let’s see what features they worked on this year!

Good job done by the teams!

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

What’s most impressive about Anthropic isn’t the $30B ARR, it’s that all 7 cofounders are still there.

In a space where most AI labs have lost half or most of their cofounders, that’s very rare.

I think it benefits from its focus. Focus is a force multiplier for startups.

You get less politics, less drama, and higher employee retention, since the whole company is moving towards the same goal.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Prolonged AI use may make it harder to think critically and creatively, recent research suggests. But there are ways to keep the brain fit https://t.co/SvMZQwg9HG

[Kingsley I. Ndoh @KINSDR]

@markessien Is Nigeria a democracy???

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable.

When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.

Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying them.

This is doing more harm than good. We need truth-seeking AI, not yes-men in silicon.

https://t.co/0kaIqV5By9

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: An experimental gene therapy ear injection has cured deafness for 10 out of 10 patients in clinical trial.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The human brain processes visual information 60,000x faster than text. Humans are visual processors, not text processors. Images hit the brain instantly. Words take work. That's why a single SpaceX launch video communicates more than a thousand-word essay—and why your slide decks hit harder than paragraphs. We're wired for pictures, not prose.

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

Senegal’s president casually updates his social profile pictures to include the AFCON trophy behind him.

How do you say “come and get it if you can” in Wolof?

[Kingsley I. Ndoh @KINSDR]

@markessien There is a reason why no country in the world has ever done this at scale. Have you cared to find out? Or do you think this is a genius idea no one has ever considered, but decided not to pursue?

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

If you’re downplaying the humanoid robot economy, you’re making the same mistake some people made about the internet in 1993. The infrastructure is being built right before your eyes.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Amazon reportedly holds mandatory meeting after “vibe coded” changes trigger major outages.

[Kingsley I. Ndoh @KINSDR]

@docneto With only 5,000 Megawatts of electricity?

[Kingsley I. Ndoh @KINSDR]

@docneto @son_of_jerry True, but the political capital incentive to launch buildings (in the name of hospitals) trumps the alternative. There is no "comissioning" for equipment or training or hiring more staff...that wont fetch political capital.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Not filing patents and using trade secrets will become more common. Why ? Because the second you file your patent, every LLM is going to be able to train on it.

Then everyone on the planet can ask for a work around to file a competitive patent.

Your IP is no longer yours the minute you publish it

[European Research Council (ERC) @ERC_Research]

A study led by ERC grantee Mariano Barbacid @CNIOStopCancer shows that a three-drug combination can eliminate pancreatic cancer in mice by blocking the KRAS gene in multiple ways. https://t.co/rFsd9EbVFL