The AI industry focuses too much on technology and not enough on whether people actually want to use it. Widespread underestimation of human comfort will trigger societal pushback against AI advances. The speaker argues the industry needs to put humanity first.
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We're in an industry where so much of the conversation is focused on technology, and I think humanity is far more important than the technological developments, largely because humanity dictates how technology is adopted. For example, right now people are massively underestimating the role that human adoption and human comfort with advances in artificial intelligence will determine its deployment. Technology leaders think that folks will just blindly adopt new technology as it comes out, and I think we're going to enter a period of time where there's going to be a huge amount of societal pushback on a lot of the changes that are coming with AI. And so I think a lot of our focus as an industry, but more broadly in the world, needs to be putting humanity first, making sure that the tools we're developing are advancing humanity's goals in addition to business goals. And, you know, I think in our industry, at least, that's a bit contrarian.