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Cerebras Systems<\/a> CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman<\/a> thinks the AI doomer narrative isn\u2019t doing the industry any favors. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026<\/a>, the AI chipmaker exec quipped that \u201csome of the leaders in the AI world maybe shouldn\u2019t be allowed to talk in public.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s referencing the negativity now spreading around the dangers of AI, from models breaking containment to AI insiders debating the percentage chance<\/a> that AI may kill all of humanity by the end of the decade. The argument has become so mainstream that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was recently parodied in a skit on \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d<\/a> where the fictional character summed up the discourse, saying, \u201cWe do not condone what we are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Feldman, however, thinks the promise and potential that go hand in hand with AI developments are getting overlooked. He thinks AI leaders should spend more time telling people that AI could lead to a world where your grandkids will \u201cnever meet anybody who dies of cancer,\u201d for instance, even if they have concerns about AI risks.<\/p>\n Clearly, Feldman has a vested interest in AI being successful, as the company\u2019s customers include big names working with the technology, like OpenAI, Block, Figma, pharmaceutical giant GSK, and Lovable.<\/p>\n However, he\u2019s pragmatic about weighing the trade-offs between risk and reward.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think there are powerful technologies that don\u2019t come with the challenge of \u2018what happens when powerful technologies are in the hands of bad people?\u2019 I think you can\u2019t make one and not have the other,\u201d Feldman said during his interview at Disrupt.<\/p>\n \u201cI think what we have to say is that this technology is powerful,\u201d he added. \u201cWe have to be thoughtful about it. We have to regulate it reasonably,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The chipmaker CEO also suggested that some of the negativity around AI has to do with how the data center industry has approached the new buildouts created by AI demand.<\/p>\n \u201cAs an industry, we weren\u2019t super good for the past few years at working with local communities, particularly in the U.S. We \u2014 the industry \u2014 didn\u2019t do what others have done in the power industry in oil and gas. They didn\u2019t work with the community. They didn\u2019t engage the community as they should have, and that was a problem,\u201d Feldman said.<\/p>\n He compared the NIMBY-ism \u2014 \u201cnot in my backyard!\u201d \u2014 of what\u2019s going on in the U.S. with other countries, naming Brazil, Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Mexico, and Sweden as markets where they\u2019re encouraging companies to build data centers.<\/p>\n Feldman also wasn\u2019t concerned that efficiency improvements would create less demand for his chips, or those from other companies competing with Nvidia, as Cerebras is. <\/p>\n \u201cWe can do our job as hardware vendors to make our compute more efficient, and then the model makers can do improved work in making their models more efficient to achieve the same goals. All of this has to come together to make meaningful strides forward,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t affect our editorial independence.<\/em><\/p>\n