Mike Pesca

So let's talk about AI.

Because I can vacillate.

I am a long-term AI optimist, meaning I'm betting on human beings that we're a species that has survived quite a bit over a million years, and we're not going to let robots replace us.

But I am mindful that the transition is going to be quite painful.

And I do think that increasingly the next three years are going to be about fear of AI displacement.

Even though, again, I think we're probably, my guess is the fear is a little too soon.

Like anything, it's probably coming sooner than we should actually be fearing it.

But that's how I try to comfort myself and how I remain optimistic in the long run about AI, even though this is going to be extraordinarily disruptive in the moment.

Where's your head on this?

Do you blame them for thinking that, by the way?

Given what social media – given what the tech companies did to us with social media.

No, it is, especially when we realize that also we're... I mean, we've not had...

the correct generation matched with the technological regulatory demands that we've had, right?

When the internet first came along, we had a whole bunch of people that were very analog, right?

Right.

And then you go to, you know, as we go to social media, you have people that are still trying to figure out how to use email with their AOL.com.

You know, they're still figuring out text.

By the time we've gotten AI, you have people that are still just now getting comfortable with the iPhone premise.

Right.

So that's that's what's scary is that.