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I'm Carara. I'm Scott. And this is a pivot quick take. I'm Senator Mark Kelly. Hi, Cara and
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Scott. This is my quick take on AI. I use AI a lot. You know, Chat GPT, I often go there instead of Google. I've
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been incredibly impressed with the capabilities. I mean, right from the beginning. The last thing I asked Chat
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GPT was yesterday. I only had 30 minutes to go to the gym and I asked it to do something that had the bike, the rowing
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machine, some squats and bench press. It worked and I did it. The problem is we face a future where there could be
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millions of Americans without a job because AI is moving very rapidly and people already lose their jobs. Uh now
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the the other side of this is every time we found uh ways to make uh worker productivity better throughout our
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history in time we've created a bigger economy and more jobs. uh but this is moving so fast that if we don't don't
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have a good plan uh and put that plan in place I think in years to come we will find ourselves
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regretful that we didn't do things upfront to support you know workers who clearly can be displaced my solution is
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a plan called AI for America which is a plan to eventually come up with legislation to form public private
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partnership to have AI companies and the companies that benefit from this technology, the companies that use AI
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partner with the federal government to provide the resources into what we call an AI horizon fund to pay for job
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training and upskilling and retraining people for other careers, but also um supports the changes we need in our
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infrastructure. If we don't provide the needed power and water resources for data centers, uh
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communities will reject them. We've already seen this. Uh where I live in Tucson, Arizona, we've seen a AI data
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center uh from Amazon that tried to uh you know start um construction inside the Tucson city limits. Then uh when the
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community realized how much power and water this was going to take, eventually the city council unanimously voted
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against it. Now, if we had the resources to improve infrastructure ahead of time
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and and come up with new technologies to cool data centers beyond what's available right now that use a lot of
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waters, often through a flash evaporative cooling, we could find ourselves in a position where
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communities like where I live in Arizona would embrace these data centers because
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of the construction jobs and afterwards that there are also some good paying jobs that come with having this uh in a
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community. We've already reached out to tech companies to get their input and we
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got some good comments. We are asking them to participate and work with the federal government in a private public
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partnership and contribute some of the funds to uh train workers and to build the
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infrastructure necessary to support this technology. We can't put this all on the
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backs of taxpayers, especially in this environment, you know, right now. It has to be a partnership. And I want this to
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be a collaborative approach, not only with tech companies, but universities and AI experts and unions and utilities
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to collaborate on this as we move forward and take this plan through the legislative process and come up with
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something that I think tech companies could support because again, it's in their best interest to not develop
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technology that results in millions of people losing their jobs because if it becomes that disruptive to the workforce
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and to our economy, you know, I think tech companies will find themselves, you know, not as welcome as they otherwise
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could be. We want this technology to be safe. We don't want it to have uh negative social impacts especially on
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children. So there are ways you can approach that. You can have a red team try to figure out, you know, what is the
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downside of of this technology and how do we put in safeguards to protect kids. We did not do that with social media.
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We're starting to do it now, but we have gone nearly two decades without the necessary safeguards in place for social
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media. I don't think we want to find ourselves in a similar situation here. And if we're thoughtful about it and we
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work together to come up with some, you know, solutions on the front end, we can
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mitigate some of the worst consequences of this technology. Now, again, I think this is a huge win for our country and I
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want these companies to be able to innovate without, you know, too much interference.
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But it's got to be a partnership. next steps. We're going to continue to meet with industry,
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with trade associ associations, with unions, with universities, with utilities, working together with
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Democrats and Republicans in the House and the Senate, uh, to get a bigger effort and then eventually turning it
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into legislation and turning it into programs within the Department of Commerce or the Department of Education,
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Department of Labor. I mean, there's places naturally that we could, you know, put certain programs. I want to
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make sure that we have a plan today that is thinking about what is it going to be
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like in our country 10 and 20 and 30 years from now because if we're thoughtful about it upfront and we we
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have a good plan, I think we're going to get a better outcome. And that's my quick take.