Tom BurtonCo-Founder, COO and CTO of LeadSmart Technologies

If the economy breaks, AI can't help #Economy

Name: If the economy breaks, AI can't help #Economy
Uploaded: 2025-06-10T15:49:29+00:00
Duration: 18 s
Channel: Tom Burton
Description: A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Tom Burton and another speaker) about economic growth, whether AI can drive productivity, and the…

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A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Tom Burton and another speaker) about economic growth, whether AI can drive productivity, and the urgency of addressing the country's trade imbalance and risk of bankruptcy. The speakers debate whether AI can help before fiscal collapse and emphasize the need to fix trade balance issues.

You have to grow.
Trying that. We're trying that forever.
Right. But that's, you know, then you come back to, well, can AI and all the other things lead us out of this or lead us down the road of productivity?
Not. Not before the country goes bankrupt.
Well, depends. Right. So I agree with you, though. I think that is a big, big problem.
Is that's why I, that's my, my position that I'm, you know, trying to propose here is we, we have to have a trade balance and we are. Have a, an imbalance in trade right now. And again, I'm not suggesting for one second. I think that, you know, Kelly just.
Said here, right, they can go to Congress. Right. He can go to Congress if they went that route. But that's a whole different animal all the way around.
Yeah. So. Well, and this is. Paul just made the most important comment, and it's kind of where I was headed with this, right. Is at the end of the day, right, it. We still have this uncertainty, which is frustrating, which to Paul's point, it's exactly why I asked you the question.