Eric Stackpole

Those both were really creating a lot of emotion, I think, for both of us.

Well, you know, I'm an engineer, not just by training, but like at heart.

I love technology and I'm optimistic about it.

But I certainly see how many of these extremely powerful technologies are double-edged swords.

From the moment we harnessed fire, we were dealing with these sort of double-edged sword scenarios.

Something powerful can create great destruction or it can allow you to go very hard in a wrong direction.

The thing you can't not talk about these days is AI.

And while there's a lot of people talking about the concerns they have for it, which are very legitimate, I think that we are in this moment where we can profoundly change that contextualization I was talking about before.

We have the ability to understand who we are.

in the frame of all of it in a way that no one has had the privilege to have before.

And I think it would be an awful tragedy if we miss the full potential of what that has.

So just like discovering that you can manipulate fire for the first time, we should treat it with a sort of respect, with a cautiousness, but also with an excitedness and eagerness to see what is possible.

And that's what inspires me every day.

Yeah, I'm pretty proud of that.

I really think it's true.

You know, because we have this incredible capability at our fingertips in all these different forms, using the whale experience as an example, it used to be that we could only wonder what's down there and we could work really hard to try to get some little sensor or something to learn just a little bit, to push the envelope a little bit further.

But I think we are in this almost like singularity moment where access to information is so available that basically it's like if you're a student, you can choose what you want to major in.

There's so many things to learn, but you have to decide what your interest is and what to focus on.

I think that we're like that as a society.

We can learn in any direction possible.