The speaker worries that an AI winter could harm a hype-dependent conference company and potentially bankrupt him.

“Winter, summer, winter. If we ever have a winter, when is it gonna happen, and am I gonna go bankrupt? Which is, is a real concern-”

“... for a conference company that relies on hype. You know, more, more broadly, I think that there is a real concern about safety that all my friends at all the labs are really, really wo- very worried about, and that society cannot handle and adjust quickly enough.”