Bill Gurley: My P-second-COVID is way higher than my p-doom on AI
kevinnbass · x · 2026-09-20
Venture capitalist Bill Gurley pushes back on AI doom narratives by invoking COVID-19's toll: 15 million deaths, disruption of every life on the planet, and $45 trillion in global costs, with children hit especially hard — his own kids lost three of their most formative years. He notes that six years on, we still don't know the root cause. "Forgive me if I'm unafraid of what some AI guy's chatbot is going to do to humanity when you can't tell me what this thing already did. My P-second-COVID is way higher than my p-doom." Others including kevinnbass strongly agree.
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