Small business owner Kelly Anderson urges AI literacy over fear

Hi, my name is Kelly Anderson, and I'm here as a curious member of the public.

AI is shaping our future and job market, so I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of this conversation.

Today I heard a lot about fear.

Many concerns raised are legitimate, but I don't believe that fear should be the foundation

of where we govern our future.

As a small business owner, AI has allowed me to accomplish more than I could have imagined.

But I don't think of it as a super intelligence.

I'm constantly correcting my AI agents, and I even won a psychology debate with my chat GPT last week.

I think of it as a synthetic intelligence, a tool that processes information at scale and expands human capability, but cannot replace human judgment, morality, creativity, or wisdom.

So how do we get ahead of it?

I have just a few suggestions on where we can start.

First, AI literacy.

Teach people to use AI safely and work in tandem with it, not as a replacement for thinking.

If we fear job displacement, prepare people for where the job market is headed.

Second, infrastructure.

AI increases demand for energy, water, storage, and physical space.

Before simply building more, let's innovate within existing

Sting architecture.

Project Silica and closed-loop cooling show that innovation can happen beneath the models, too, that are more sustainable.

Third, government preparedness.

I was encouraged to hear that OTI discussed emergency planning and guardrails.

Government also needs AI literacy.

Policymakers don't need to be engineers, but they should know the right questions to ask and when technical expertise is needed.

AI is already here.

We can prepare for what could go wrong without losing sight of what could go right.

Instead of governing from fear or scrambling to catch up, let's get ahead of it and meet the future with possibility.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.