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Success successful.
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Such successful women?
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Did you know women represent just three of Fortune five
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hundred CEOs and less than fifteen percent of corporate executives
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at top companies worldwide? Have you wondered what the secrets
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private or public sector. Do you want to figure out
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how to stop being held back in your career? Are
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passed over for promotion, then you're in the right place.
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Hi.
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I'm doctor Matlanane lewis President and CEO of the Executive
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Women's Success Institute. I have decades of experience in the military,
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the federal government, and corporate America, and my mission is
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to help women succeed and tap into their full potential.
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I want to reach a million plus women around the
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world to become the leaders they are meant to be.
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So if you want to move into a management or
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executive level position, or maybe you are a female veteran
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transitioning out of the military into business entrepreneurship, and then
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reach out to the Executive Women's Success Institute at three
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zero one six nine three three two eighty four let
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us get you on the fast track to success. Well, Hello,
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and welcome to the Success for Women Show, where you
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can view us on Talk for TV and listen to
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us on the Women for Women Network. I am doctor
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Madeline Ann lewis your host, and my mission is to
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help women accelerate the path to success. Well, today's topic
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is what we're hearing a whole lot about all over
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the place, and it's the AI evolution. And my guest
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is mister Jason Michael Perry. Now let me give you
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just a little background, mister Perry. Jason Michael Perry is
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the founder and Chief AI Officer at Perry Labs, where
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he helps organizations build smarter with artificial intelligence, turning complex
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technology into practical, human centered solutions. With more than two
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decades of experience in leading engineering and product teams across startups, government,
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and Fortune fifty companies, Jason brings both technical depth and
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relatable ground level view of how AI is reshaping work, leadership,
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and everyday life. He's the author of The AI Evolution
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and the creator of Thoughts on Tech and Things, a
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newsletter and podcast produced with WYPR that explores the human
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side of emerging technology. Also led AI in a Minor
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an award winning collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and
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AWS that blended classical music with AI composed performances, showcasing
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how creativity and technology can work together rather than competing.
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I'd like to welcome to the show, mister Jason, Michael Perry.
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Hello, thank you. Doctor Mallin.
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Hi, how are you. It's great to have you on here.
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You know, everybody's talking about AI. We're seeing so much
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about AI. Every time I open up my computer, my
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email is full of you need to get this. I
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guess there's something to do with AI. All these different components.
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It's so confusing. So we're hoping today that you're just
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gonna shed a little bit of light on some of
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this stuff that's going on, But before we get before
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we get started, I always give the standard bio on
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my guests, but I also like to just find out,
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why don't you just tell us a little bit about
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what you want us to know about Jason Michael Perry.
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Well, I always say I'm Jason Michael Perry. I always
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say I go by the three first names. But the
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last three four years, I've just been immersed in everything
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that's happening in the space with artificial intelligence, and more importantly,
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how it's helping businesses and how it's impacting businesses, and
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also how it's changing our regular lives, our professional lives
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as well as our personal lives. I spent those years
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almost doing a walk about and talking with people, speaking
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at events, talking at conferences, attending meetups, and took a
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lot of this information as well as the consulting work
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I was doing, and brought all of this into this book,
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The AI Evolution, which is just really speaks to not
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any of the moment, but also talks about how big
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of a potential shift that this is for the world.
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And just to quickly speak to that, one of the
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things I love to say in my talks is that
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the five biggest companies in the world right now by valuation,
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is there Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft. These companies didn't
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exist fifty one years ago. And I know that's that
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takes a second, so let's like let that set in.
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But fifty one years ago, none of these companies existed
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and a lot in Microsoft just made fifty years this year.
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And the thing that that all these companies have to
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do is the is the technology that has had such
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a big impact on who you are. So for example, uh,
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personal computers, that's Microsoft and Apple, that's the Internet. Then
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there's then there's the the modification and mobile apps, and
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now we're talking about AI and that's potentially a bigger
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shift than anything and that that's that's what this conversation
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is about. That's what's so important right now.
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Wow, now your your book the AI Evolution? What ends
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aired you to even write that book? And what do
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you hope that your readers will take away from it? Because,
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like I said, it's a whole lot of stuff about AI.
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I found myself talking with professionals and business owners as
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well as managers and companies that were asking this question
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of how do they adapt their businesses to be AI
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native and to use AI in a way that will
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truly impact the organizations. And to be frank, there's a
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lot of companies who are just tossing the words AI
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out there and putting it on top of their brands
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or changing marketing, you know, collateral to just use words
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AI without really understanding it. There's also a big void
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in education because this is so new for executives of
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all types.
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We're hearing these terms.
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Like agenta AI or AI workflows and they don't understand
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what it means. And that's that's not that's just the
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reality of how quickly these things are adapting. And so
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I wanted to write something that just set and start terms.
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What is the moment that we're dealing with wou'd say,
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true path to understanding the needs for governance, How do
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you deal with adoption? What are the issues that your
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workforce are dealing with, What are the data issues and
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the things that you need to do to make sure
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that you're setting up your systems that so they're set
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up in the right way to allow AI to actually
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work within your organization. And that was the goal of
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the book, The E Evolution. But I also wanted to
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talk about it in terms of a role, which may
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be a chief AI officer and maybe a director or
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a manager, but the person who wants to really take
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that hat and put it on and be that change
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agent within an organization to help implement AIM.
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Well. You know, your book explores a lot about reshaping
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and how AI is reshaping these businesses and the way
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that they operate and make decisions. What do you think
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are some of the things that organizations are that's causing
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them to hold back even some of them maybe from
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even implementing AI in the organization?
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Change management is the are the big words here that
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there's a lot of fear and there's a lot of
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fear from employees who are worrying that the work that
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they're doing to adopt AI means that they're working themselves
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out of a job. So some of those cases leads
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to a lot of fear, a lot of concerns, and
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also a low AI adoption, which I see in a
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lot of organizations. That's a big thing, you know, to
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just pull on that thread a little bit a little
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bit more. I mentioned the top five companies by valuation.
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Those are also some of the companies that are doing
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the most in terms of A implementations. And there are
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also some of the companies that are leading with the
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most layoffs, and we're having conversations about the way that
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their middle management layers are changing.
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And that's a big thing.
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The companies who were pushing to be AI native or
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incorporate these technologies and deep ways or saying things like
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more cross functional management, they're saying things like how do
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I reduce the amount of managers that we have and
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how do I scale our individual contributors. These are things
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that are going to impact you one way or another.
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It may take longer for it to hit your industry
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or your organization type, you know, and you may see
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it happen more with technology companies first. But understanding these things,
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understanding the change is part of it. Understanding and seeing
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the wave that's coming. Is that you figure out how
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you want your business to adapt or how do you
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define this thing is important. The other big thing I
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would say is that for companies who say we're blocking
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AI or we're not ready to say what we're doing,
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that that's the worst scenario to be in. And that
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leads to what we call in our industry and the
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tech industry chatter. I team, which is a simple way
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of saying that people are using the tools regardless of whether.
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You say that they can or they can't.
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And if you're not providing the education, then you have
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a higher likelihood of these tools hallucinating, which is just
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a technical way of saying is going to lie to you.
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We see this with law firms and all over the place,
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where it's generating things that are not true. If you're
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not teaching your workforce understand this, you're you're increasing your
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risk profile, you're putting yourself in put in legal peril,
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and you're not doing the things that are necessary as
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an organization to make sure that your team is ready.
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And so this is a this is a really complicated
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thing of how do you get the adoption, how do
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you how do you do it change management to bring
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your teams along, How do you provide the education to
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make sure they're using the tools, How do you make
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sure that you're providing the tools, how do you roll
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out governance when you have a technology's changing every three
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to six months and all this is complicated. But if
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you're not making this a priority, then it's happening without
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you being in control of it, which is a worst scenario,
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and that means that these things are happening without anyone
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with your organization and the grasp, but the risk that
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is possibly there for your for your company exactly.
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Yeah, I know that well a little bit. I'm going
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to make sure that I say that. That I know
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about AI is that a lot of the tools, even
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you know a lot of people use the check GVT.
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I mean, you can train it or teach it to
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pick up I guess your personality sort of speak, so
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that when you ask it to do something, it really
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will take on your tone or your voice or what
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have you. And I understand that, and I guess that's
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where maybe the fear comes in. You think with some
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people when they think about, Okay, if I implement this
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and it's in my business, the employees, like you said,
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will think that it's gonna take them out of a job,
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because I mean, isn't And this may be one of
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the lower level parts of AI. But even when you
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go into the supermarket and you have the checkout, the
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self checkout, isn't that a part somewhat of AI because
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it's doing it all by itself. You know, all you
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do is stand there and scan your stuff. And it
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takes your money, takes your card, what have you, and
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then you're out the door. And so they don't need
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an employee other than to stand there to make sure
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that you're scanning everything you know and not not doing
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what you're supposed to do. But like you said, and
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then you have the legal part of it. I know that.
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For example, if you're someone who say, you decide you
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want to create websites for someone, then you also have
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to make sure that you I would think, uh, there's
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there's also going to be a part of it that
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you're going to have to make sure that the legal
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part or whatever however you set it up, especially if
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the person is going to be have it where you
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they take money, some kind of way collect money, there's
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also that. So then, like you said, it's a lot
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that you have to, you know, make sure that it
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has even though it changes, but it changes so quickly.
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I think that the part.
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So I think that I have a unique perspective of
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this and not just me, but I think software engineers
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and technologists and futurists do. And that's that Over the
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twenty plus years that I've been at this, I've watched
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the software and the twos that I use become obsolete
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over and over and over again. The things that were
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standard five years ago, the books that I wrote ten