Joel Pearson

What I was going to say before is that sometimes I'll rephrase that as AI immigrants.

If you think about it for a second, there's a lot of talk, especially at the moment, people get scared of human immigrants coming to Australia.

But the humans are not the immigrants you need to worry about.

It's these AI immigrants.

So there's going to be a lot more of them.

They're the ones that are going to take jobs.

And they're all coming from mainly the US for us.

And so the money that's going to them is going straight offshore at the moment.

When you hire a human immigrant, let's say in Australia, that money is going back into the community.

It's going back to rent and grocery stores and all that sort of stuff.

With AI immigrants, that money is going straight to California, let's say.

So that presents another problem of these kind of immigrants.

It's just taking money from Australia straight overseas.

So when you frame it like that, I think that opens it up to a larger section of the population to think about AI in a different way.

Is that a possibility?

Yeah, it's a non-zero possibility, so it is a possibility, but it's somewhere in the future.

And so I'm not saying we should ignore that issue, but I'm saying the other stuff, the massive change, the job losses, societal disruption, education disruption, lifestyle disruption, all that has already begun and it's here right now, it's already happening.

And we should focus on that.

Yeah.

But one of the things we study in my lab is how when you imagine, you can imagine something like a killer robot, like the whatever T-1000 Terminator kind of thing.