Right.

You know, in order to successfully do an AI project, you really need to meet with different business leaders out in the world.

Let's start a step back to figure out what you want to do with the company as an AI project.

You have to meet with the different business leaders and you're going to find different tasks they have that could be AI ready.

More than likely, you're going to sit down with a company and probably come away with anywhere from eight to 12 different projects that are AI ready.

But then you got to be ruthless and really say which ones of these are going to give the biggest value realization up front.

And that's the ones that we need to focus on as possibly the top three in the pipeline.

But then

it tight, Liz.

Thank you.

Hi,

So with that being said, I'm going to give it to Brian.

Hi, I'm Brian Doyle, alcoholic.

Through God's grace and the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and sponsorship, I've been sober since December 3, 1994.

And that is God's grace.

You know, I got to Alcoholics Anonymous by way of a psychiatrist, by way of Al-Anon.

So kinda in looking at this with AI, like how, how has your role in all of this changed in the last couple years, six months, three months, right? I mean, everything's moving so quickly, but what's changed in, in that process, and how does AI amplify this or complicate this or all the above?

It simplifies and it complicates at the same time, uh, depending on the perspective.

So in terms of simplification or assistance to us, we have, uh, projects now that used to take three people and we can run them with one person because AI is doing a lot of the analysis that would require a human to really crunch numbers and see what's going on, and that's not really where the value was being added anyway.

So now we can have somebody overseeing the AI and saying, "This makes sense.

We have the right context.

This, th- this means a lot." So there's, there's efficiency plays.

There are new products and services for us.

Like, were there specific moments where you were like, "Hey, I..." Like, "This is a real problem, and I think I'm capable of, of solving it," or, or what led you down this path?

Brian Doyle, then a schoolboy, remembers.

I think the first one I heard, uh, was, uh, Carl Bernard as, uh, Paul Temple in, uh, Paul Temple Intervenes, and we used to, uh...

I always remember the villain in that turned out to be a rather pleasant young man called Roger Story, who evaded justice at the end by throwing himself through a plate glass window on, like, the sixth floor of a hotel.

And the following day at school, we were saying, "But how could he throw himself through...

That's- that plate glass is so toughened, you know.

He couldn't do it." And then somebody else would say, "Well, perhaps he threw a p- big ashtray and broke the glass before he jumped through." And we'd discuss all the- the- the details.

Brian Doyle didn't rate these alternative versions.

John Bentley was a good, competent British actor, famous for wearing his white raincoat.

Kind of jumping ahead to whenever we as future CRNAs are actually in the workforce, how does transitioning from a W-2 employee to a 1099 independent contractor change our malpractice responsibilities? Do we have to change insurance or what does that sometimes look like?

Yeah, that's a very good question.

And it's one, I mean, a lot of times we're seeing now students when they graduate going right to 1099 work much more so than they did in the past.

But when you're transitioning from a W-2 to a 1099, let's start with W-2.

So if you're a W-2 worker, the hospital, the group, whatever facility you're working at, typically it provides the malpractice coverage for you.

So they'll pay your premiums, they'll handle credentialing.

If you have something go wrong, they'll coordinate your legal defense, and they might pay for what's called tail coverage.

So that can be kind of a dangerous thing, actually, even though it sounds like more money better, it could be a problem.