Mr. Speaker, Ellianna Makanalani, my granddaughter, will be born in a few short months into a world where human thought has become mechanized.
Every day now, I wonder about the unique challenges she will experience because of it, what the societal impact will be and whether the value of the data she produces will come to outweigh the value of her labour. I wonder about the insecurity of knowing that thinking machines could bring automated war, the impact of the consolidation of wealth and power into the hands of the few who own them, and the blurring of what it means to be a human if humanity comes to rely on machines to reason for us.
I stand here today to warn my colleagues in this place that these are issues we cannot afford to ignore, and I pray that we will find a path for my granddaughter's generation that brings them peace, prosperity and justice. May they forgive us if we do not.