Anjney Midha, Founder of AMP PBC: Creating public value with AI | End of Limits Podcast by HUMAIN

It starts with the people, right? I just think there's a lot of shared values between the two countries.

There's a belief that frontier technologies like AI are the future.

I think there's an understanding that economic growth is critical to progress is critical to the prosperity and success of of future generations, and that the best chance at unlocking economic growth comes from embracing the most promising breakthroughs in technology that can unlock growth and progress and that represents one of those.

And so I've just been over the years, I think I've There have been several moments where I've realized that unlike some other countries, what the US and the Kingdom share is this belief that technological growth and technological progress is critical for future generations and that we've got to invest now in the infrastructure that will unlock that growth.

And I think that's rare because often there are other countries...

Change is hard.

for humans to embrace.

And I think there are a number of countries who have reacted to the speed and scale of AI and the change that AI has unleashed on the world with discomfort, with a sense of trepidation, and sometimes just burying their heads in their sand, hoping everything will figure itself out.

And that's not how the world works.

And I think in contrast, In the US, certainly, there's an embrace of the technology in ways that accelerates its adoption, accelerates its positive impacts.

And I think I've noticed that that seems to be a shared belief here as well.

And I think in particular, there's a degree of sort of understanding of how important infrastructure is.

Because infrastructure can be this very difficult part of the economy to reason about because it often requires extraordinary capital expenditure upfront.

And the people who often reap the rewards of that are future generations.

And so it requires a level of long-term thinking that's quite rare.

You have to often defer attention, time, resources away from a number of other short-term projects.

under the belief that all this capex, all this infrastructure build out you do today will benefit future generations.

And I think while that's definitely, in Silicon Valley at least, that has been a baseline, I think, assumption for many years because It's such a technology focused place.

And the idea that you invest now for future progress is sort of canon there.

I think the kingdom has embraced that as part of its 2030 vision in a way that many other countries around the world are yet to embrace.

It helps also when you have a crown prince who can comfortably envision a 50 year timeline instead of a four year term.