Gerald Butts

That it's colored people's approach to the whole technology.

And as someone who's been following this a long time, going back to my time at Queens Park, it's truly miraculous the things that this technology is going to make capable, make us capable of doing.

But it's also truly terrifying that.

the amount of power it's going to concentrate in the hands of already incredibly powerful and too often misanthropic people.

And we've got to get our heads around this.

I think the strategy the government released is an excellent first step, but nobody should think that this is like,

a strategy to rebuild the Navy.

You know what I mean?

This is something that is going to become more and more of a fact of life for people's daily existence for the rest of our lives and for the lives of our children.

So, you know, I predict boldly, Peter, that this is not the last time we talk about AI on this podcast.

And it's going to be one of the two or three most important things the government either gets right or wrong.

Well, I mean, if to answer the question, why are people afraid?

Whoever's in charge of PR for AI needs to do something else for a living because, you know, the pitch has been in the short term, we're going to raise your electricity bills, but don't worry in the longterm, we're going to take all your jobs.

And every step along the way, we're going to help these companies you already hate, the social media companies, poison the minds of your children, right?

So it's just a terrible, terrible sales pitch for a new technology when people are already predisposed to be fearful of new technologies.

And we're coming out of, I don't think we're really out of, I think there's still a lot of

deeply unacknowledged trauma from way back in the pandemic.

The 2020s have not been a fun decade for a lot of people.

And I think it's been characterized by a couple of big picture trends, the most important of which is people feel like they're losing agency over their lives.

Right.