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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Don't compete with AI. Work with it. At least, that's what technologist

Priyanka Vergadia says.

In her talk, she takes a look at the collective fear that AI is coming for our jobs.

While sharing what AI is really good at, she also digs into what it misses

and why building stronger collaborations between humans and AI is our best bet for a future that allows us to stay,

as she puts it, irreplaceably human.

Well, 71% of Americans believe that AI will cause massive job losses.

Algorithms are getting smarter, faster, more capable every single day.

My work puts me at the heart of this anxiety, where I bring

AI applications to market for big tech companies,

and I help customers and businesses really take the potential of this technology further

for their businesses.

And through it all, I've seen brilliant professionals second-guess themselves

as AI gets smarter. But let me tell you this one fundamental truth about AI. AI is excelling

at identifying patterns. It understands data.

We humans excel at understanding

what these patterns actually mean

in this beautifully chaotic world of human behavior.

And even as these models and algorithms get stronger over time,

this will stay true.

Why?

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