Cassie Kozyrkov

Someone else gropes that part.

They're like, that's a rope.

Turns out there's an elephant in that room.

Well, I have groped that whole damn elephant.

We have elephants in South Africa too.

I have found all its bits.

The AI elephant.

I'm going to stop this analogy now before it runs away with us.

But...

When you actually know AI, you know how the sausage is made in the kitchen, so to speak, not continuing about the elephant's bits.

See, you encourage me, Sean.

This is what you get when you encourage me.

When you've been around the everything of AI, you realize that it is all humans all the way through.

It is very human.

It is both a tool for decision-making, which you can use wisely and you can use less wisely, and you can use completely stupidly if you insist, but it is also the product of decisions.

And that is why your different tools that you might come across out there, why they behave so differently.

Not because one of them is wrong and it's the wrong type of AI and that's the winner and the others are the losers, but because it is the decisions that people make that shapes what these systems do.

And when we say autonomous,

When I teach my MBA students about autonomous systems, and because it's MBAs, we have to get into real talk, and we have to get into difficult talk, and we have to say the uncomfortable things.

And so I say to them, okay, those of you who are made very uncomfortable, trigger warning, tune out, go away for five minutes.