Right now we have tremendous threats to our institutions. Not just our governments, courts and elections – but in the face of Ai, industries are having to consider what is the place for humanity in their efforts?

As a working journalist during web 1.0 & 2.0 — we had the ideals of what was important in Journalism written down. It was established thought — yet, as the thrill and excitement of anyone spreading just about any information from anywhere on the planet took precedence, it was hard to stop the rocket. Now most of the ideals of objectivity which formed the basis of our political discussion in our democracy are hard to find.

I started working with ai in the 90s at the University of Michigan. The confluence of the present moment — driven by technology, but also, frankly a necessity to always have economic growth drivers in our country — will produce significant change in our world more quickly than web 1.0 & 2.0.

I have seen Sundar Pichar, CEO of Google suggest that humanity is better equipped and more aware to handle these vast changes than ever before. I see it differently. We live in a time of weakened institutions that have a hard time passing budget agreements, let alone understanding a truly profound technology revolution that even those working in the field do not truly comprehend.

Our has taken people out of their every day element for generations — that’s a large business interest here — which makes it easier for us to facilitate serious and tough conversations about ai as we have many people involved who have a connection to our state, yet our state’s economy is not driven directly by technology.