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NEW: @JTLonsdale on @SquawkCNBC blasts AI safetyism, calls for one national standard. "You have states trying to ban AI in healthcare that are going to prevent us from making health care cheaper... That safetyism is what Europe does. If you want to be a poor civilization...then you should move to Europe. But America needs to stay free." Joe Lonsdale: This has been an issue we're working on all year, obviously close friends with @DavidSacks and @mkratsios47 running this in the administration. And listen, we are on the verge of something amazing for our civilization. We have tens of thousands of builders in our country. They're going to bring down the cost of health care. They're going to make houses cheaper. Permits should only take hours instead of months. Just like education is going to be better for all of our kids and personalized. They're going to fix our civilization. And yet on both the far left and the far right, you have a lot of populists who for, for really nefarious reasons, are opposing this. There are reasonable people, by the way, who have some concerns, and there's ways to compromise... But you have a lot of crazy populists. You have a patchwork of just really intense stuff they're doing that would break all of this, and we can't let that happen. Andrew Ross Sorkin: And to you, the thing that you can't break is this idea of states taking this into their own hands? Joe: I'm a federalist, Andrew, on most issues. I have teams in 23 states with @InstituteCicero... I think it's reasonable for states to do a lot of things as laboratories of democracy... What's unreasonable is you had Biden NGOs, but pushed by the last administration. You have European-like rules, and you have populists trying to put in crazy new regulatory authorities that demonize the builders to demonize the tech. And if you force us to hop through regulatory agencies in every state, China is going to win and the builders are going to lose. ...there's always an argument in our country between safety and liberty. And I think people, especially if they're not in the details, are right to be concerned and want to be safe. But if you're going to use safety to have arbitrary fines or arbitrary penalties where every state, including the radical blue states like New York, are going to be able to break our builders, that's not okay. And listen, you have states trying to ban the use of AI in health care right now in ways that are going to prevent us from making health care cheaper. You have New York State already banning it in education. This is insane. Public schools in New York are not allowing AI. They're not even in any kind of school in New York. You have to call yourself a homeschool to use AI right now in New York, which means we can't personalize it and lift up the lives of the kids who are not doing well in inner cities. This is crazy stuff, Andrew. That safetyism is what Europe does. If you want to be a poor civilization...then you should move to Europe. But America needs to stay free. ...a random legislator in New York state is not going to stop at the AI apocalypse. They're only going to harass and slow us down and make us lose to China.