The speaker considers blanket arguments for restricting powerful technologies to a select group overly absolute, noting that such absolutist approaches have succeeded only in rare cases with few positive uses.

“I think that these arguments go into a place where they're very absolute, where you kind of say, you know, these things are so powerful that no one ever should have access to them, right, except for us. And the reality is that that's never,”

“Except for some really rare exceptions where there are actually not that many positives,”

“where such absolutist perspectives worked.”