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Yeah, look, I think one thing that President Trump is really good at is galvanizing the support of industry.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
And so I think the first thing is bringing these guys.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
You have all of these tech sort of execs who have come to D.C., come to the White House on various occasions.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
And so I think the president has an opportunity to bring this group together and have a serious conversation.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
A lot of the AI conversation right now is because people just don't know what the future holds for AI.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
They're not sure what these billion dollar investments will entail.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
They're not sure what jobs are going to be displaced or replaced by AI.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
And so if I were the president, I would bring these people to the White House and have a frank conversation about it and say, look,
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If we're going to displace 250,000 workers in the next two years or the next five years, where do they go?
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Can we use AI to help do some up tooling, upskilling, retooling, getting people different industry jobs?
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
And so I think it starts with a conversation, one, and then secondly, with a plan.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
Yeah, I think you're right, Mark.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
In some ways, yes, that's the simple answer.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
But I think we have to be a little bit more broad in the way we think about AI.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
There are some wonderful benefits to AI, particularly in health care, particularly in some of these, to Beverly's point, some of these white collar jobs that were entry level jobs have now become a little bit more automated.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
And so companies are taking advantage of that.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
So there are some good things that are coming from AI already.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
I think the thing you're talking about, Mark, is the cultural shift this is going to have on our global economy.
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One.
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Trump's Crucial State of the Union, the Key Difference Between 2016 and 2026, and AI and China Challenges
And then two, just a cultural shift on how we interact with each other, how we interact with our own jobs.