The speaker says AI companies are already highly important and will become more important as they produce AI systems expected to surpass human intelligence, become essential to military operations, and be adopted by governments.

“And AI companies are and increasingly will be just the most important places in the world.”

“world because they're you know printing off these AI systems that are then like you know the most soon to be more intelligent than any human they'll be essential in any military operation they'll be adopted by the government and that is really where I think like governance should be focused for the most part because frontier systems are just that much more”