Rohit Chopra

And to me, you go through this in the video, but tell us a little bit more about why you've landed on the path that you've landed for your future.

Like why are you taking the bet that you are?

What is it?

I mean, it actually, it's a story that reminds me a lot of

what people were making the decision to do during the Great Recession, kind of to stay in school.

So talk to us a little bit about why you're thinking what you're thinking right now, why you're taking that kind of gamble.

It's a sort of safer bet.

Why do you think it's a safer bet?

Yeah.

I mean, there's sort of like two reasons.

I mean, the first one is kind of just purely financial.

Like, um, I'm, I'm very lucky that I don't have any debt.

Like I had a very good scholarship, so I'm debt-free and I don't have to really worry about immediately making income to try to pay that off.

So I have a

I managed to land a graduate assistantship position.

So, you know, they'll pay me for doing research and I get tuition waves.

So, you know, it's not like I'm going into more dire financial straits by doing this.

And then the other reason is I really am just sort of

interested and worried about the consequences of AI on society.

I've always been worried about this.