Two speakers debate whether technology will replace human judgment. One warns that treating people as data leads to dystopia. The other shares how a surgeon's compassion saved his shattered leg in 2019, choosing hope over what any algorithm would have done.
Stop commoditizing human beings. Your end user is a human. But if Terminator taught us anything, taught us anything, if the end game is just technology, technology, technology, numbers, and if human beings are left behind, that's not going to fly because you still need human beings to pick up your trash. You still need human beings to cook you a food. You still need a human being to breastfeed your newborn child. I guess you don't, but it should happen that way. They become healthier.
But look, look, no, really, it comes down to, you know, I was in a motorcycle accident about 6 years ago. There was in the year 2019 a surgeon, a human being, and he had an option. And had my accident happened 10 years prior, that surgeon would have been— commonplace would have been cut the leg off. They would have just cut my leg off 10 years earlier. This guy said, I know I'm supposed to cut his leg off right now, but that human being looked at my leg and with all of its fractures and 11 fractures below my knee, my foot's ripped into pieces. And he said, let's give it a shot. And that's called hope. That's called compassion. That's called love. That's called sincerity. That's a beating heart. I have a leg. I have my leg because a human being an educated and brilliant human being looked and said, you know what? There isn't an algorithm for this. There isn't a metric for this. This guy, this guy, I'm going to give him a shot. And he went in and he was successful. And that's the human element. That's a very, I think that's a shining example of why mankind matters.
