LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman sees bright AI future and hopes his tech peers are right about Trump

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s. They later started PayPal during the late 1990s alongside now-Tesla CEO Elon Musk before all going on to even bigger things. Hoffman more recently has been investing in artificial intelligence and has co-written a new book, “Superagency,” asserting the technology will empower humanity. He recently talked to The Associated Press about his AI optimism and his hopes for the Trump administration after supporting Kamala Harris in last year's election.