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AI Safety Language Is Destroying the Debate | Steven Sinofsky

a16z Board Partner and former Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky joins Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini on MTS to argue that the language we use to describe AI failures is making it harder to understand what’s actually going wrong. Steven takes aim at terms like “alignment,” “goal-seeking,” a…

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  1. 2026-09-21 18:05 · a16z Podcast
    AI Safety Language Is Destroying the Debate | Steven Sinofsky

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