Aneesh Raman

And I just want to show my math about why I came at it differently.

But because I was coming at it differently, I sort of started to build this logic flow.

And it starts with, OK, I think this is going to be big.

There's this term general purpose technology that folks may have heard about or not, but it basically describes technology that comes in, kind of changes everything, and then a lot of stuff builds off of that technology in terms of new businesses, new jobs, new economies.

And so if you look across sort of the history of work in the industrial age, you've got the steam engine, you've got electricity, you've got internet, and now we've got AI.

And so I always started from what does this mean for humans?

And that was always a little bit of an outlier from the start because at the beginning of all this, a lot of technologists were saying, well, humans are done.

We're cooked, like we had a good run, but this machine's gonna out machine us, like there's nothing left for us to do.

So the idea that there was even a role for humans at work in this age wasn't a given.

And then there wasn't a lot of effort at the beginning to, if you think there is gonna be a role, start to understand what it's gonna look like.

But that's where I went first.

And so then I thought about, okay, we've had these three and now this is our fourth, let's say, general purpose technology.

I think it's at that level.

And that was a step first.

Because remember, at first it was like, is AI the internet or crypto?

Is it a fad or is it actually here?

And then if it's here, is it going to change overnight or over decades?

We were just kind of like feeling our way through this.

But I was like, no, this is big and it's gonna change a lot and it's gonna change quicker than we think.

Okay, now what is it gonna change?