Imad Zia
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Imad Zia is a technology and artificial-intelligence commentator or participant featured in the podcast discussion. Publicly available context in the excerpt provides limited information about his professional background.
What Imad Zia has said on podcasts
17 statements
Slowing AI progress would be the worst outcome
“I think the worst possible outcome is deceleration. So don't decel.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 9:16
Competition is beneficial in advanced AI development
“I think competition is very healthy in this space.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 13:35
An AI safety cartel would be harmful
“I think forming a cartel for full ownership of what maybe I've called in the past the Frontier Liberation Front and pushing out a Frontier Liberation Front. Terrible idea.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 13:38
Superintelligence will proliferate new forms of government
“I would predict the exact opposite is going to happen thanks to superintelligence, not an erosion of nation-states, but a proliferation of new forms of government.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 17:53
Superintelligence will provide cognitive capacity equivalent to trillions of humans
“We're going to live to the extent we don't already, in a world with the cognitive equivalent of many trillions of human beings.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 25:09
A statutory cap on machine intelligence would be harmful
“putting a statutory cap on intelligence, aside from being a terrible idea, is an evil idea.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 28:45
Penalizing people for excessive machine intelligence would be harmful
“penalizing people for being too smart It's a terrible idea. It's an evil idea.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 29:10
AI releases will reach one model per day by year-end
“One model per day by the end of this year.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 31:56
Meta risks future irrelevance without an AI distribution strategy
“Meta risks oblivion, irrelevance in the future.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 34:34
Claude Opus 5.5 can generate high-quality procedural video
“for the first time with Opus 5.5, you can generate a really high-quality video that's purely procedurally generated.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 37:05
Separate robotics models are becoming unnecessary
“this whole notion that you needed separate models for robotics is right out the window.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 41:07
Generalist AI models make specialized robotics approaches obsolete
“with a generalist model, robotics is cooked as well.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 41:41
AI can compress a century of progress into months
“We have a century of human progress in a period of a few months.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 45:26
Frontier AI labs are pursuing biology applications at full speed
“their revealed preference is no, actually full steam ahead to AI for solving biology.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 46:04
Superintelligence and AI biology can solve aging and disease
“This is how we solve aging. This is how we solve disease.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 47:12
Digital twins of cells are the critical path to solving disease
“when we have digital twins for cells, which is, I think, the critical path to solving all disease”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 49:39
Digital cell twins will turn biology problems into tractable search problems
“every biology problem with the benefit especially of these digital twins is just going to become a search problem.”
Open the episode · Why Jensen and Zuck think the doomers are wrong (plus AI get’s a rebrand) | #294 MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 50:42
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3 episodes featuring Imad Zia
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI panel shifts the risk debate from takeover to misuse
The discussion tests whether slowing AI is prudent risk management or a costly surrender in competition, augmentation, and biological discovery.
Sep 28, 2026 · 51 min
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
AI panel rejects doom-driven pauses while confronting real risks
The discussion tests whether slowing AI development can reduce catastrophic risk without sacrificing advances in science, medicine, and human longevity.
Sep 27, 2026 · 52 min
Global News Podcast
US-Iran strikes test diplomacy as crises spread worldwide
The episode connects a dangerous military escalation with humanitarian disasters, cultural destruction, migration fears, scientific discovery, and an uneven cultural recovery.
Aug 31, 2026 · 32 min