through some very serious health

issues.

And this was at a time where I had a digital product company, my very first digital product that I created with two other partners who were all equal shareholders in the company.

That company was doing fairly well, but starting to fall apart.

And so I had a lot of stress.

My fellow co-founders and I were in conflict a lot of the time.

We'd very much grown apart.

But where is that leading? Where do you see AI in five years from now? What do you see going on in the world of AI? How do you think it's going to change the world?

W- what are the th- what are the obstacles, what are the questions, what are the fears that they're presenting you with that, that you're seeing most commonly?

Well, the number one fear is people think, "Oh, AI is gonna take my job." I mean, it's...

To me, it sounds ridiculous at this point, maybe because I've just explained it so many times, but that fear is real for a lot of people.

So back in, oh gosh, what was it? May? I think it was May.

I was speaking in Branson, Missouri at a, uh, at a conference to journalists.

So this was a, well, journalists, media entities, magazines, newspapers, you know, online news blogs.

So these are people who've been in the, the media industry for decades.

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