A Trump Science Advisor Says Elon Musk And Sam Altman Won’t End Up With AI’s Money: ‘There Will Be A Billionaire That Will Emerge That Has Zero Net Worth Today’

A man President Trump appointed to his science and technology council in March says the three people everyone assumes will own the AI economy will not, and that the person who does is currently worth nothing. "I don't buy into the narrative that Dario, Elon, and Sam end up having all the value in AI," David Friedberg said in a clip published on September 2 from a Diary of a CEO interview. "Because in the next 10 years, there will be a billionaire that will emerge that has zero net worth today, downloaded open-source AI, and built a company that made them a billionaire. And there're going to be someone that's going to come from nowhere."

He used first names. The three he meant are Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman of OpenAI. Friedberg co-hosts the All-In podcast, runs the venture firm The Production Board, and was named to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology on March 25.