The Exchanges

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Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Silicon Valley, um, kind of learned from you. The Obama campaign in 2008 told people hope and change. One, um, tech started focusing its messaging on how it was gonna change your life and give, give you hope. Um, and a lot of people don't feel that hope in their lives. Is it that that messaging is just falling flat on people and they're just saying, I don't believe you?

A Well, we obviously have a historic distrust of institutions and people in power today. So voters, and when I say voters, it's not just voters, citizens are disinclined to believe messages like that, that they believe that somehow I'm gonna, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna get the shaft. While you might profit. So I do think, you know, particularly around health and some of the breakthroughs that we're seeing happen with AI. And of course, you know, a use case that probably 60% of the country is engaged in now is to use these LLMs for their own health diagnosis and research and people getting great value out of that. So that's a place where I think you can definitely sell hope. I think it's going to be really important for the industry to lift up places, small businesses, medium sized businesses who are utilizing AI To make more money, to be more productive, to grow their business, but they're also growing their footprint. Because all these major layoffs that have happened at the major companies are seen by Americans. Like they're not necessarily reading the entire Wall Street Journal story, but they see it and it scares them. So I think there, there has to be more positive storytelling. I think some of the storytelling to date around how people are using it for fitness and cooking, that's okay. But to me, it doesn't address the core concerns people have. You've got to tell them, A, tha…

AI assessment note: “citizens are disinclined to believe messages like that, that they believe that somehow I'm gonna”

Answered raw tape D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q now. Uh, and the new numbers are coming in, uh, April, May employment, and they're looking pretty good. Um, which would suggest that maybe college grads are going to be okay. So where do you think we are on AI and jobs? And does this extend beyond, you know, Sam and Elon talking and Dario? Let's not forget him talking about how there's going to be like white collar bloodbaths.

A Well, I think, right. My, my sense is most of the announcements to date have been a blend of AI and a convenient way to downsize. Um, and I think that's across sector, across industry, and you see a lot of copycat announcements in that regard. I think when you talk to voters, most of them don't know somebody yet who's lost their job directly because of AI, so it's more of a concern, right? Now, all of us, I assume in this room, ah, you know, even those of us that don't work in an AI company are using it all day long every day, and we see the power of it. And things that we would have asked somebody six months ago to do, who's an entry level person, you don't do that anymore.

AI assessment note: “most of the announcements to date have been a blend of AI and a convenient way to downsize”

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