# Every AI Founder Should Be Asking These Questions

**Author:** Y Combinator
**Type:** Video
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/My-every-ai-founder-should-be-asking-these-questions
**YouTube ID:** DJjZzzPANBY

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Jordan Fisher is the co-founder & CEO of Standard AI and now leads an AI alignment research team at Anthropic. In his
talk at AI Startup School on June 17th, 2025, he frames the future of startups through questions rather than
answers—asking how founders should navigate a world where AGI may be just a few years away.

He surfaces the big questions startups should be asking in the age of AGI: Should you even start a company right now?
What happens when software becomes commoditized? How do you build trust as teams shrink and AI takes on more
responsibility?

