Kevin O'Leary
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Wow, Jake's a real Debbie Downer today.
I mean, this is an unbelievable opportunity we're talking about.
I got to buy more sunglasses for how bright the future is.
Change is disruptive and it's uncomfortable.
But the scare factor of saying that everybody loses their job and the robots eat the children, I just don't buy it.
So let me just say this.
How about that for an answer?
If you go back in time, any new technology is extremely disruptive.
Change is disruptive and it's uncomfortable.
And it always is that way.
And yet it always proves within the context of the American economy to create a lot of productivity and opportunity.
And I would argue today, if we're going to find a cure for cancer, it's going to be through AI.
If we're going to democratize education, it'll be through AI.
If we're going to do some advances on space research and travel, it'll be through AI.
Productivity in the S&P 500 and it's all small companies, AI.
And you can't have it without data centers.
You actually need the underpinnings, the infrastructure.
And so that debate, that narrative is going on.
But there's a dark side to this that I've only started to bring forward in the last couple of weeks.
I discovered this in Utah recently.