Gerald Butts

Right.

That for a lot of different big macro problems, climate change, climate change.

Lack of cohesion socially, income inequality, what our recent experience with social media, as we have talked about many times, has done to our politics and our kids.

All of this stuff has shaken the public's

kind of default position that technological advancement is an advancement for society at large.

And I think that coupled with, to be diplomatic about it, the questionable moral compass of the leaders of the companies in this sector is,

It's like these are not people you want your kids looking up to.

Right.

They kind of make the robber barons of the 19th century to go back to that analogy look pretty damn good.

And I worry about all of those things coming together.

For a generation that is already struggling for reasons we've discussed many times, affordability, worry about anxiety about climate change, all kinds of things.

And now they're having this thrown on what is already a very full cart.

And they're just like, how do I manage myself?

my future and you know i have kids who are in university and they're already thinking that the things they're studying are obsolete and they're not even finished yet so i i think that we're going to need to uh be in we're gonna it's going to test our canadian capacity for generosity intergenerationally uh to to deal with this situation because um our kids are going to need a lot of help

for a government right now given the things that are changing so rapidly and the power of those tech bros or whatever you want to call them yeah yeah well my wife is uh wiser than i am on most things but especially this because she's a governance expert right and she reminds me all the time that this argument from the industry that this thing is too big and

complex and therefore can't be regulated it's just spin it's an advocacy argument and you know pharmacology is big and complex but we regulate that the automobile industry is big and complex but we regulate what kinds of cars can be on our roads etc etc

So it's really a question of what things the government is going to pick to demonstrate to the public that as a society, we actually have power to shape the rules that govern these things.

You know, my own pet view on this is that and, you know, we could probably go down a rabbit hole on this, but all of these LLMs have a default setting.

where you can strip it of all of its quasi human language it's veneer that you're talking to a person they're called harnesses right and if you make the default harness that it's just going to give you in as um clinical a way possible an answer to the question that you're asking it you're less likely to be led down a garden path where suddenly you're asking this thing how to 3d print and gun you know what i mean because because this is the problem the problem and we've

social media you start and you ask a basic question and then you strike up a conversation with these things and then it gets to know you and it starts to understand your motivations maybe even if you're a young person a little better than you do because it's comparing you as a use case quote unquote against a big pool of data and