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Alvin W. Graylin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
91 total appearances

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TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

Humanity is good, not for one country is good.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

The third part of the plan is something called the GI Bill for the AI age.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

So why did I say that?

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

Because in 1944-45, there was about 15 million American service people coming back from World War II, and they were going to create a giant employment shock to the world because they're going to come in, they're going to be unemployed.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

What did America decide to do?

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

The government says, hey, we're going to give you free education.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

We're going to give you zero-interest loans, we're going to give you free medical, and then we're going to help you essentially buy homes, because that's what's needed for people to have secure lives.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

And it created the American middle class.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

It created a boom in our economy and turned us into what we are today, which is the most successful and most powerful nation in the world.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

We can do that again, but not for 15 million people, maybe for 150 million people, maybe for 1.5 billion people.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

because America has 170 million workers.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

And the displacements that we are seeing is going to be the proportions that people are predicting.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

It could get into 100-plus million people affected just in this country.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

And globally, it will be billions of people.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

And we have to take care of them, because if we don't, this world is not going to be a very good place for us to hang out in.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

I think what you need to do is actually to start to change your mindset, to start to understand that the world is not zero-sum, and you actually have a responsibility as business owners.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

Most of you guys own businesses or work in very senior positions in businesses.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

You need to see about how does your company integrate AI, not in a way to replace people, but in a way to make things more efficient.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

And rather than saying, I'm going to lay off 30 percent of my staff, which some companies are doing, because recently I've talked to 50 companies in the last two months about how they will implement it, and a lot of them are saying, I'm going to just replace my people.

TED Talks Daily
3 possible futures for AI โ€” which will we choose? | Alvin W. Graylin, Manoush Zomorodi

giving them four-day work weeks, giving them reskilling to other places.