Ro Khanna
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There are many people who may not agree with that.
The advances it can make in human disease and diagnosis of human disease, the advances it can make in education curriculum for young people, the advances they can make in production.
You know, one of the places we went to in Beijing was Xiaomi, the factory that makes these phones.
And I was stunned.
I mean, I was stunned.
The AI has these machines that are basically putting together the phone.
I mean, it's a model of the iPhone.
Sure.
Just two points on AI, though.
We do need to think about the job displacement and what we can do as a country.
I believe the federal government has to step in
for young people in particular to say, look, you can work for a few years if you can't find a private sector job in helping on childcare, eldercare, your communities, healthcare, government services.
Maybe we make AI so that the DMV works better and people start to think that the government services actually are effective.
But I think that there has to be a lot of thought put in to the displacement and being ahead of the curve.
And the only thing I'd say about China is while they're formidable, the one statistic that made me think we've got a lot of things right here that they haven't, 20% youth unemployment in China.
And that's because there are all these college graduates.
They don't want to work on a factory line.
And I tease Letnick about screws on the iPhone or something.
A lot of college graduates, they didn't wanna do that in China.
And at the same time, not everyone is gonna be making EVs.