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Aidan Gomez

CEO and Cofounder, Cohere

Search every verified Aidan Gomez interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Aidan Gomez, CEO and co-founder of Cohere, has recently discussed AI safety, regulation, and the competitive landscape of the industry. He has publicly criticized proposals by some frontier AI labs, including Anthropic, to coordinate on safety standards, arguing that such an approach could amount to a "cartel" and entrench dominant players. Gomez has stated that while AI poses real risks, particularly in cybersecurity, he believes that discussions of existential threats are often based on science fiction rather than fact. He has called for safety measures such as independent testing and mandatory transparency, but has said these should be led by the public sector and involve a broad set of stakeholders rather than a small group of companies. Gomez has also spoken about Cohere's business strategy and the importance of sovereign AI. He has said that Cohere has avoided selling large stakes to hyperscalers, which he stated has protected its positioning as a sovereign champion. He has advocated for Canada to maintain leadership in AI, noting that the technology was developed with Canadian taxpayer funding and that the country should commercialize it. Gomez has also discussed the need for diverse AI supply chains and data center capacity, arguing that Canada should become a "data center superpower" due to its clean energy grid. Additionally, Cohere announced plans to acquire German LLM company Aleph Alpha, which Gomez said would make the company a multi-continental business.

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“It was a risk, it was something that was talked about and like by many parties sort of pooed like they would never, you know, like we're such good friends with the states like they would never do this to us. That's an unthinkable reality. But come on, we're in like five eyes together, you know, like it's we share everything... The most tightly coordinated set of allies of the United States being the intelligence shar”

“What they mean is that no one can switch off their access to AI. They want unrestricted. They want control fundamentally control over where it runs. control over who can see the data running through it. And then very importantly they want operational continuity like in a crisis it will not get shut off. And what they don't want is like the mythos scenario where you have built a bunch of stuff on top of this model and”

“Sovereignty is not isolation and so it's not the case that every single country needs to build everything the entire AI supply chain. We all have to do chips, we all have to do models, we all have to do applications. That would be a impossible and b colossally inefficient and so that's not what I'm proposing. What I do think is that there needs to be a diverse supply chain. You need to have multiple providers and cou”

“I think that it's very important that democracy in general continues to lead on the global stage and so we're going through a period of large-scale geopolitical change. And that can be a good thing, right? Like it could change for the better. We could see that democracies are actually stronger and the democratic alliance is stronger and more influential on the global stage on the other side of that change or it could”

“Every time you turn on your phone or your laptop, you're connecting to a data center. So data centers exist. They are fundamental to the digital infrastructure of the world. There's no present or future without them. We're going to have to develop data center capacity. The question is one of how do we do it in the right way? How do we consult communities? How do we make sure that energy costs don't get affected by th”

“The first thing to say is that there are dangers to the technology for sure. In particular, things like the cyber threat like this is the most capable cyber weapon we've ever seen developed. So, that is 100% real and that threat needs to be mitigated. There's a second category of risk where people talk about extinction or the Terminator like scenarios that are kind of sci-fi inspired and they even like to assign perc”

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