A speaker shares how saying yes to an Alexa opportunity transformed their career, then urges you to become an advocate for AI ethics and safety. As AI systems fail and proliferate, demand for responsible guidance is rising, but safeguards won't happen without people pushing for them now.
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thinking differently. And that's why I can't inspire you all enough, encourage you all enough to just start saying the things you're thinking. Because when you say the thing you're thinking now and you're alone, you're like, people are gonna think I'm a crazy person. Um, but in 2 years or even less, you, you like, you're a thought leader. That's what it means, is that you will step out in principle and talk, and on principle, on purpose, about what you care about. And there's a reason that you have the, these ideas in your brain. This is my belief. I do it all the time. I get an idea and I just run with it. And then 6 months, a year, 2 years later, I'm like, oh my gosh, there's a reason I got that idea at that time. And some of you know this experience when you don't listen to that and you don't say it. And then 2 years later you're like, I've been thinking about that and I was gonna write that book and I was gonna do this thing and I didn't. And then you just, but now you know, like when I got that invite to join Alexa, I had missed other opportunities and I knew that. I was like, this is one of those moments where if I do not do this, I will regret it. And it changed my whole life just saying yes. And so this is like, right now is that kind of yes moment where you, you don't have to, but being in this class, I'm encouraging you to embrace that concept of being an advocate for responsibility, for ethics, for guidance. People are more and more hungry for it now than they've ever been, but that's only going to grow as these systems begin to fail us. As they start to outnumber us. People are going to be looking for guardrails and safety systems, and, and they're going to not find it unless we all get to work. So, um,