Nick Calacanis

AI Governance Fight Shifts to Centralization, Open Models, and Worker Agency

On All-In, Bill Gurley joined Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya for a debate framed less around whether AI is powerful than around who will control it. The panel read Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical as a warning about concentrated power, but split over the remedy: Sacks argued government regulation could become the centralizing threat, while Gurley and others scrutinized Anthropic’s safety posture as either regulatory strategy or something closer to a belief in building a superior intelligence. Their practical conclusion was that open models, swappable systems and worker fluency are the main checks against AI power consolidating in a few labs or agencies.