You don't get it: North Carolina's AI problem is urgent

The AI revolution is happening fast, and North Carolina needs to act now to help avoid a severe workforce disruption

I wrote earlier this week that North Carolina needs to get going on AI legislation, but I don't think I conveyed just how urgent this is. Adapting our education system and workforce to an AI future is likely the most important policy issue facing our country right now, and the states that get it right will be at a huge advantage.

The states that don’t… well, it won’t be pretty.

If you don't believe me, listen to this podcast featuring an interview with a company CEO about how he uses AI now and how he plans to in the future (warning, there is a lot of bad language in there). Or this video with investor Chris Sacca (again, really bad language). It's eye-opening.

He says that AI right now is like AOL dial-up was at the dawn of the internet — a fun little tool, but not super useful. He's right on the money.

ChatGPT is fun to play with and helps a lot with lower-level tasks, but it's a pain to get it to do what you want it to. For AI to help with more complex tasks, you have to cobble togethe…