The speaker argues that AI literacy is now essential for workers, especially engineers. While many fear AI will eliminate jobs, demand for engineers who can leverage AI is actually soaring. He warns that humans risk becoming lazy and letting AI replace rather than augment our thinking.
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What are your concerns, if any, with AI in society? My number one concern is that I think a lot of humans are lazy. For me, it's why The AI-Driven Leader is more of a leadership book than an AI book. I am trying to create a new category of leader where we take a stand for humanity. And as the leaders, as those who are leading by example, we teach people how to use this to enhance you, not to replace you, where you do not let this undermine your thinking. That's part one. And then I think you have the societal impacts. I mean, the water consumption is real. The electricity needs is real. And there's so many kids coming outta college right now who have a negative perception of AI. I was at dinner the other night with a few other CEOs and the waiter heard us talking about AI and he scoffed. And I asked him, what was that? And he goes, I hate AI. I said, tell me more. And he goes, well, I'm a senior in college. I'm a software engineer. There are no jobs for software engineers because of AI. Number one, he's 100% wrong. I'm hiring them in my company. The demand for people who can write code with AI is through the roof. And I asked him, do you have any idea how many CEOs I know who ask me, do you know any young kids coming out of school who knew how to use AI that I can just unleash inside my company? It's all of them. AI is not optional when it comes to the workforce. I really would challenge you to think about getting into the game.
