It's a big topic.

A lot of people are talking about what does artificial intelligence or a I mean, for society, including businesses, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce hosted an AI summit Monday to address what the future could hold.

There's a lot of uncertainty around it in the public policy space.

There's some questions about making sure that the regulations in place to protect our citizens.

And so from our members over the last year, there has been a lot of questions about the role of business, the role of government, and where is all this going.

And so I think the summit today is a really good start of these conversations.

A lot of the conversations we're having here around how these tools can be best leveraged to enhance our organizations, to enhance productivity, to enhance workers lives are really relevant to my work at the university and for educating the next generation of the workforce we've been talking about at the summit in different ways is retaining human agency and accountability over the process.

And that applies to a learning environment where a student retains accountability for their learning, to a professional environment where we retain accountability for the work that we do.

We can answer for that today.

What I really want to come out of it is people feeling a little bit more comfortable with what it means for their business, but also what government is doing to protect them from the things they see on the news and the things that maybe worry them about, about.

What it does is it gives us, you know, as my fellow panelist discussed, superpowers in the way that we can have access to a lot of information, a lot of data, and a lot of computational power to either help us make our decisions, analyze that data, plug in to different kinds of information or documentation from our organization, and do our work more effectively so that we are freed up to do what we're actually there to do.

Industries are using this in in lots of different ways.

It's hard to pin down you know, one that's going to be benefited more so than others.

But what we did talk about is how perhaps frontline workers are going to be really affected by this technology in terms of what they're able to do more quickly, how they're going to be able to focus more on the kind of tasks that demand their skills more.

Additionally, I'm seeing areas in health care that's that soon enough, this is going to, you know, even further revolutionize health care, has been using A.I.

for a long time, but generative AI is a kind of slightly different animal.

And then also in areas such as business administration analytics, even law, these areas are going to be kind of changed profoundly.

I think it's really important that innovation and regulation go hand in hand, and AI is really exciting and businesses are using it to harness that innovative spirit that we know here in Kentucky.

But we also want to make sure that businesses and taxpayers are protected from some of the things that we hear about.

We continue to have these open and big table conversations from different professions, disciplines and areas of expertise so that we can move that needle even further to better understanding how this relates to our human endeavors, our sense of what we want our future to be.

Important discussion indeed, event organizers plan on hosting another AI summit in the future.