Sally Bendersky

Terminology has changed.

There are certain things that don't change.

And that's very important when we think about AI.

Because things that AI doesn't have and will not have, at least for the time that we can think of, those things are very, they don't move, they hardly move.

Those are our principles, our ethics, our value system, the value that we want to offer.

That doesn't change.

And that's basically very human.

And that's why it was not enough for me to be an engineer, because what you saw in my time studying engineering, we weren't a lot of women.

We were very few women, almost no women.

We didn't have female bathrooms to begin with.

at our campus and you saw a group that was passionate about something and it was debating about, I don't know, a constant or a variable of a differential equation.

Humans are much more than that.

And I think that's why today, at least in Chile, civil engineering doesn't have the status it used to have.

And people like you, economists, they have gone up, and environmentalists, etc.

And I think that's very detrimental for national development.

Engineering is coming back.

If you see China, China is an engineering country and you can see its fast development in the last five years.

But on the other hand, at least in my country, there has been some improvement, but not enough because the mindset, the way people see the world hasn't changed so much.

In each profession.

And so the engineering mind has not changed so much.