Wes Moore

And he said to me one day, he said, listen, we worked for six months to get him to include a line in the speech.

But what if you could write the whole speech?

And that was the point.

Policy matters in this.

And the people who were writing the speeches and giving the speeches said,

They are the ones who are going to have an outsized impact on whether or not we can solve these problems.

This is going to be one of the most transformational projects.

both opportunities and challenges that our society has faced.

And here in the state of Maryland, we're being very open-eyed about it, even though I think there's a lot of places that are not.

We've been able to try to capture the benefits of it, where, for example, we are using artificial intelligence

for things like our summer EBT program, or it's basically a summer food program for our kids, where now we have about three quarters of a million kids that are receiving summer food from artificial intelligence.

Same thing where we have for our, what we call constituent services, or almost like consumer services, where we're utilizing artificial intelligence to help to make sure that people's needs are being met here in the state of Maryland.

But I'm also very clear on this, that we are now watching a stock market that continues to skyrocket

profitability that continues to outstretch.

And by the way, the stock market gains are basically being driven by like seven companies.

And unemployment go up.

That we're watching companies that are now more profitable than ever and also laying off people.

It's because they're investing in artificial intelligence, they're investing in technologies, and we are not preparing our society for it.

And so I do think it is a real obligation for all of us as leaders to be able to say, what can we do to embrace the benefits of it?

Because I think it can be transformational in education, in healthcare, in public safety.