Dr. Mark Khater

It's not a tech bro environment.

This is a very neutral environment.

This is an environment where people can approach AI from different angles.

This is an environment where people can actually handle AI very intentionally for the betterment of humanity, which is really what research is all about.

So this is why universities are incredibly important in sort of, you know, intellectually regulating how we use AI and how we develop it and how we deploy it for the benefit of whatever discipline we choose.

This sounds really interesting because if you take tech pros, so they have a company they want to make, they need to make money.

I mean, this is their job.

And they don't have basically the freedom to do something else.

If you do something else, you might like entropic problems with government.

And so you might not get jobs and then you have a problem at the stock market or whatever.

So universities are a good field.

Yeah, I love the idea.

Absolutely.

I think you can't have the creators of the technology regulating the technology.

That's never worked.

That never ends well.

And so and also when there is a very large information gradient between those creating the tech and those using the tech, then there's quite a large space or a lot of room for manipulation.

And you see that happening around us a lot, whether it's hype or fear.

And the reality is somewhere between that hype and that fear.

And it is the role of these neutral institutions like universities to actually create that reality so that they can turn around to the public and say, actually, this is hype, this is fear, this is reality.