Dr. Lolly Mancey

And we're going to need real visionaries and this cross collaboration between academia and civil society to figure this stuff out.

And I don't really know that I don't really see that action happening yet.

I know, I know.

None of us want to think we've got more problems.

Yeah, and that is the exact problem that we have in this country over and over again, that we don't have a long-term vision and we desperately need one, desperately.

We have a very educated workforce as well.

And we're agile and small enough to be able to innovate.

We do innovation incredibly well.

We have a very buoyant startup culture in every sector.

But yet we don't seem to be able to scale past that point.

We seem to just

We get stuck.

And again, that's the vision, that's the infrastructure, that's the funding mechanisms that are in this.

We have all of the qualities that we need.

We just don't seem to be able to drive it out.

We do.

Of course we do.

And we, you know, we actually what we need as well is we need we need some clarity around some of these issues.

You know, we've been calling for the last couple of years for AI literacy, many of us in different fields.

But the reason for that is not to be pro or against AI.