# Dave Blundin **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / technological transformation **Maturity:** Developing ## Overview **Dave Blundin** is technology investor and entrepreneur whose Moonshots analysis focuses on acceleration, labor markets, consumer AI, infrastructure, and biotechnology. This node preserves the person’s propositions in context and routes them into the technical, economic, and social concepts they illuminate. ## Knowledge-Graph Role The quotations below are not treated as detachable celebrity remarks. Each is connected to the mechanism it describes, the source in which it appeared, and the broader ontology required to evaluate its implications. ## Relationships - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] - [[wiki/AI Economy|AI Economy]] - [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Stocks including Epicor, where I am the chairman, went down fifteen percent on back-to-back days because everybody thought, ‘I am going to find my auto insurance and my mortgage through Meta Muse.’ It is not going to play out that way, but the reaction was incredible. Everyone is starting to visualize whether Google Search will become completely irrelevant because Meta Muse looks like a copilot for life. That definitely is going to happen." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/AI Economy/Consumer AI Can Reprice Entire Industries Before Replacing Them by Dave Blundin|Consumer AI Can Reprice Entire Industries Before Replacing Them by Dave Blundin]] > "The most dangerous part of Bernie Sanders’ proposal is the data-center restriction. If your state does not build data centers while other states do, they are not coming back. Once the ground is broken, the chips are there, and the investment has been made, you cannot recover that position. Data centers will be massive economic drivers for the states that get ahead, and that is the part they are really going to regret." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/AI Infrastructure/Data Centers Are Irrecoverable Economic Positions for States by Dave Blundin|Data Centers Are Irrecoverable Economic Positions for States by Dave Blundin]] > "‘When in doubt, do nothing’ is a toxic default because very bad things will happen if you do nothing. Terrorists using AI to build bioweapons and China getting miles ahead of the United States are real things to worry about. Turning AI into a left-right political battle is the stupidest thing that could happen. We need specific technical solutions for open source, monitoring, and other risks, as we did with nuclear power. If we move on those solutions, we can solve the problems in time for superintelligence. If we turn this into a political debate, we will become frozen and people will not know what to do." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Risk Debate/Doing Nothing About AI Can Be More Dangerous Than Acting by Dave Blundin|Doing Nothing About AI Can Be More Dangerous Than Acting by Dave Blundin]] > "We are on the cusp of a moment I have been waiting for my entire life. I am not going to throw cold water on what may be the greatest moment in the history of humanity. We are moving forward at warp speed. [AI] is improving itself, and the ability to make the world dramatically better is right in front of us. Misuse is an incredible threat, and there are solutions to it, but this is happening anyway. Getting stuck on doomerism is completely dysfunctional. We are not slowing down." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/AI-Tech Doomers/Doomerism Cannot Stop the Greatest Technological Moment by Dave Blundin|Doomerism Cannot Stop the Greatest Technological Moment by Dave Blundin]] > "There are so many real problems that need to be solved. I hate the idea that we are going to turn [superintelligence] into a do-or-don’t argument, which is utterly insane. Liability law in the United States makes it very easy to scare people into doing nothing. If people fear twenty years in prison before the rule has even been proposed, they stop acting, and that is the worst thing that could come out of this." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Risk Debate/Fear of Prison Can Stop People From Solving Real Problems by Dave Blundin|Fear of Prison Can Stop People From Solving Real Problems by Dave Blundin]] > "Both things can be true: a generalized model can drive a car or inhabit and build a robot, while a specialized model may still perform the task more efficiently. The missing question is how much compute the general model used. Compute will remain starved; chip prices have risen, and high-bandwidth memory has increased fivefold in price. AI is so valuable that people want the compute, so using more compute for the same task is a serious failure." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/AI Infrastructure/General Models Must Still Justify Their Compute Costs by Dave Blundin|General Models Must Still Justify Their Compute Costs by Dave Blundin]] > "This is how we solve aging and disease. I do not think we reach the happy future in which the top five thousand diseases have been solved or longevity escape velocity has been durably achieved without superintelligence. I am a fan of Anthropic and the other frontier labs opening their laboratories because this is how we solve everything." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Longevity/Superintelligence Is How We Solve Aging and Disease by Dave Blundin|Superintelligence Is How We Solve Aging and Disease by Dave Blundin]] > "There is now a fork between consumer AI, which is insanely valuable and will completely replace search and other ways people interact with the internet, and recursively self-improving strong AI, which we benchmark relentlessly. The model that crushes the benchmarks is distinct from Meta Muse, which does not have to be the most intelligent model to be the most useful in day-to-day life." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Agentic AI/The Most Useful Consumer AI Need Not Be the Smartest by Dave Blundin|The Most Useful Consumer AI Need Not Be the Smartest by Dave Blundin]] > "When you put a visual interface on top of something you are building with AI, it shows you mock-ups before you commit to building and then builds exactly what it proposed visually. The visual understanding is so much better than it was only months—or even days—ago. Interacting with it and feeling as though you are inside it is night-and-day different." > **— Dave Blundin**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Entrepreneurship/Visual AI Can Prototype Before It Builds by Dave Blundin|Visual AI Can Prototype Before It Builds by Dave Blundin]]