Ro, you just gave a nice little stump speech. Congrats.
I'm talking about how AI can be used to make government more efficient, less expensive and provide an option, where it makes sense , to private enterprise.
Enabling more of the revenue you collect from taxpayers to go directly to the people who need it.
Ask your GenZ and neediest constituents, if AI could reduce spending in your state and improve the quality of services offered, with some percent of those savings being deposited in their bank accounts annually, would they approve of the government using AI ?
You know the answer.
By focusing on technology that can allow government to provide better services at a lower cost, which AI will be in a position to enable, only then can you help provide for people who need help and support.
AI is new, and not easy to implement. Which is why your state and the federal government should be creating programs to give new grads, who know or can learn AI, jobs to work with existing staff to find ways to decrease costs and improve efficiency. It's an investment that will pay off.
And as far as all the things you want to subsidize, from homes to childcare to healthcare , you could take every dollar from every billionaire and trillionaire in your state and probably every state and territory, leave them broke and then eat them, and it wouldn't cover for a year, the cost of what you want to do
But
Since I know healthcare, let's start there and see how serious you are about Medicare for All ?
Who runs it and how do you choose that person?
Right now the proposed legislation from jayapal and sanders says ," at the discretion of the Sec of HHS"
What do you think would be happening right now if that had been passed ?
I'll tell you the same thing I tell Republicans who think removing government and regulation from any market will make that market bigger and more efficient ...
Ideology is not a strategy
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@mcuban have you seen
@ericschmidt booed by young graduates preaching how AI will solve all? I am not an AI doomer or accelerationist. I am an AI democratist. But AI is not a panacea for our economic divides.
Our elite class is totally out of touch.
Young folks see an unfair and lopsided economy where money lenders & speculators are obscenely wealthy while they can't afford a house or education.
We are in a new Gilded Age.
We need a home guarantee for young Americans by 35 if they work for 7 years.
A jobs program for them after school.
Childcare at $10 day.
Medicare for All so healthcare isn't tied to your work.
Free trade schools and public college.
An industrial investment bank financing small and medium size manufacturers that make things we currently import.
Tech institutes that prepare Americans to use AI in a small business, government agency, or factory floor.
An end to data center extraction taking a community's water and jacking up their bills, sucking all the money in the hands of a few tech billionaires.
A tax on agentic AI more than human workers.
A tax on billionaires and, yes, trillionaires.
An end to foreign wars.
An end to aid to nations that commit genocide.
I call it a Team America agenda.