Joel Pearson

It needs to be this human discussion.

One of the things that really bugs me is that there's been the whole discussion around AI has been massively biased.

And one of the reasons that is, is because all the media tends to go to AI experts.

So the godfathers of AI, you've heard of Jeffrey Hinton and all these people that are, you know, that live and breathe computer scientists, or they go to the AI CEOs and they ask them about what's the future of the world?

What is, how is AI going to change schools and my kids and this?

But they're the wrong people to ask.

They give very tech-focused, very computer science answers.

For them and their minds, the biggest threat is this misalignment, the Terminator scenario that AI is going to wipe us out to make more paperclips or something like that.

And that's something that is one possibility on the horizon.

Who knows when?

Whereas the societal disruption, the job loss, all the human stuff is already happening.

It's baked in and it started to happen.

So I think sort of, I see part of my mission is to shift that focus away from the very AI focused sort of nerdy answers like that to the societal effects that are really going to matter to us.

Yeah.

It's different and it will be different.

So we need to think about this differently.

Think about it on a much bigger scale.

And I don't see any governments doing that.

Think of COVID times 1,000, times 10,000, like that kind of disruption.

And we did see the mental health impact of COVID.