Gerald Butts

People are going to make and lose fortunes.

But we're still going to end up with infrastructure that's really important at the end of the day.

And maybe even a better, more recent example is the build out of fiber optics to support the growth of the Internet that we all these companies that look.

like they were going to be what companies like Meta, Google, and Apple became.

They died, right?

But to use the overused organic metaphor, it's like when a giant redwood falls in a forest, it creates nutrients for everything else around and other things grow in its place.

And I think that that's the period we're going to go through.

But that just adds to the disruption.

And I think that from a government perspective, you're looking at this as an issue that's starting to take shape as a salient political issue in the country.

And let's treat AI the way its boosters want us to treat it and call it a person, right?

If AI were a candidate for public office, its current brand is, okay, Canadians, in the short term, I'm going to increase your energy bills.

And in the long term, I'm going to take all your jobs.

So why are people anxious about the advent of AI?

It's because those are the two messages that they're getting told all of the time about it.

And by the way, it's inevitable.

There's nothing you can do about it.

And, you know, I had a conversation with a very, very senior scientist.

Canadian CEO about this last summer and we were both we have kids around the same age and we were both reflecting he said something to me that has stuck with me all the time ever since he said my 22 year old son

tells me, dad, I feel like I'm just two steps ahead of the machine.

That's the robots.