Charles Hudson argues companies should spend a few million annually testing how AI could disrupt their business. The stakes are high: low probability of disruption, but catastrophic if it happens. Better to experiment now than ignore the meteor.
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I think also, if you just think about it, how much would you pay for meteorite insurance if you were a dinosaur? It's actually a low probability event that you're going to get hit by a meteor if you're a dinosaur. But if that meteor happens to hit Earth, boy, would you wish you had, like, a plan. Sure. And I think about, like, the amount of money these companies are spending relative to the scale of their business. It's actually not that much money. So if I were running a SaaS company, and if you told me for a few million dollars a year of spend, you can get some sense of how disruptible your business is by AI, whatever your internal processes, you could make more efficient, it is okay to have this experimental recurring revenue or this exploratory budget. Like, that's exactly what you should be doing.