VC investor Reid Hoffman is on a mission to show AI can improve humanity

Reid Hoffman, billionaire entrepreneur and venture capital investor, is worried about artificial intelligence – but not for the doomsday reasons making headlines. Instead, he worries the doomsday headlines are too negative.

So in recent months, Hoffman has engaged in an aggressive thought-leadership regimen to extol the virtues of AI. He has done so in blog posts, television interviews and fireside chats. He has spoken to government officials around the world. He hosts three podcasts and a YouTube channel. And in March, he published a book, “Impromptu,” co-written with the AI tool GPT-4.

It’s all part of the land grab for public opinion around AI in preparation for when the initial burst of fear and hype over the technology settles into a coherent debate.