"How can we bring along people to see that they can be a part of the robotic revolution?" In a conversation with @IgnatiusPost at the AI Edge Summit, @Geckorobotics CEO Jake Loosararian (@jakeloosy) discussed how AI is giving industrial workers in Pittsburgh and Appalachia tools to outpace traditional manufacturing.

At the AI Edge Summit, @BrookingsInst President Cecilia Elena Rouse argued that society has a choice on whether AI replaces or complements people in the labor market. "If you look at the introduction of Excel, you would have expected that to displace accountants. But what it did is lower the cost of getting help," Rouse told Juliet @Eilperin.

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In a conversation for the Building America series, @GlobalFoundries executive chairman Tom Caulfield unpacked the power of quantum computing. Areas where classic computing would take "decades," quantum computing "could do it in hours, maybe a day," Caulfield told futures editor Zachary @Goldfarb.

In a @PostLive conversation, Brian Stone of the @nsfgov talked about the inflection point in quantum computing. "Quantum computing is going to be another element of our computing structure," Stone told @Cat_Zakrzewski of @washingtonpost.

In a @postlive conversation, @CocoRobotics CEO @zac_rash discussed the rise of physical AI in urban logistics. "It didn't feel like the future of our cities was going to be just adding your neighbor in a 2003, 4,000-pound gas car delivering food ... There was an opportunity to build something purpose-built for that task," Rash told @ElaheIzadi at the AI Edge Summit.

At the AI Edge Summit, @RepMcClellan (D-Virginia) shared her perspective on AI security vulnerabilities in the wake of the Hugging Face incident. "If a human being had done what those AI agents had done, it's a felony. But our laws don't account for an AI agent doing it. So, who's responsible?" McClellan told deputy @postopinions editor @jameshohmann.

At @PostLive's AI Edge Summit, @BrookingsInst President Cecilia Elena Rouse told Juliet @Eilperin societies may need to rethink structures from unemployment to health insurance if AI causes large-scale job displacement.

Speaking at the AI Edge Summit, Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) praised the Trump administration's engagement with Silicon Valley leaders since this will be "the age of technology." "Congress just needs to make sure we're doing our part and not becoming observers in the process," Young added.

"If we build an airplane and it does something wrong, we don't get to say the airplane did this. You designed the airplane. You're accountable for what that airplane did." - @shieldaitech co-founder Ryan Tseng (@rtsengusa) speaking to @pranshuverma_ at the #AI Edge Summit.

At the AI Edge Summit, @reflection_ai CEO @MishaLaskin discussed the growing AI safety debate. "I actually worry a lot more about safety when you only have a few hundred people who can actually understand how these systems work and are controlling, in a sense, our destiny," Laskin told @Cat_Zakrzewski of @washingtonpost.

In a @postlive conversation, White House National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross addressed China's advancements in AI. "Both on the hardware side and on the computer science side in engineering, we're in the lead," Cairncross told @washingtonpost Managing Editor Peter Spiegel at the AI Edge Summit.

In a @PostLive conversation, @washingtonpost national security reporter @John_Hudson talked about the "unconventional actors" who advise President Donald Trump on foreign policy. Trump also has the Mar-a-Lago National Security Council, which is "the cast of characters in South Florida that he might run into," Hudson said.

How has President Donald Trump changed the Republican and Democratic parties? Early Brief co-anchor Dan @merica said at a @postlive event “it's difficult to overestimate how impactful he has been on both parties.”

In a @PostLive conversation, @United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby addressed the growing debate over AI safety and regulation. "Congress can do everything that they want, but it is irrelevant unless it's global," Kirby told @washingtonpost Executive Editor Matt Murray.

Eleven-time WNBA All-Star @nnekaogwumike recently announced that she will retire at the conclusion of the 2026 season. Speaking to @PostLive at the 2024 Global Women’s Summit about the surging popularity of women’s basketball, she said, “We have people that are inside the league and in these teams that are realizing that they have to match what these players have been providing on the court.”

Will AI lead to a jobs apocalypse? "Frankly, we can't get enough skilled AI engineers. As AI starts to enter more fields, I think software will prove to be a harbinger or a forerunner of a trend we'll see in other sectors as well," Andrew Ng told @jameshohmann of @PostOpinions.