I have been working for decades to consolidate my pending patents on artificial intelligence and donate them to a non-profit foundation to help America maintain leadership in AI. Moreover, my five decades in this field have left me more confident than ever that AI will advance worldwide human knowledge, productivity, and happiness.
I pioneered micro computer technology in the late 1960s, with my startup company, Micro Computer, Inc. I helped pioneer AI more than 35 years ago and have worked to consolidate these technologies ever since. Back then, I predicted where AI would take society, and I see it happening today. AI is on the verge of powering widespread human flourishing.
Alas, naysayers abound. According to a September 17 Pew Research survey of 5,023 adults, “53% say AI will worsen people’s ability to think creatively, compared with 16% who say it will improve this.” But AI facilitates creativity, like a bright lab assistant who helps me invent and experiment. AI does not erode the brain, as Pew Research’s respondents seem to believe.
However, I know from very long experience as an engineer, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur that AI is causing an exponential improvement in creativity and innovation. AI is significantly enhancing creative thinking.
The microcomputer and the internet freed me from much of the drudgery of library research by putting the world’s knowledge at my fingertips. Likewise, AI is liberating me from having to analyze that knowhow to get specifically what I need in the form that I need it. This enhances my creative thinking by sparing me much of the remaining drudgery associated with innovation and creative thinking.
Legendary inventor Thomas Edison said in the early 1900s: “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” Now, with AI, genius may be 50 percent inspiration and 50 percent perspiration.
Some Americans worry that AI will be a giant job-killing machine. Here, too, the news is better than many expect. A March 10 KPMG survey of US CEOs discovered that “In the next year, 55% expect to increase hiring due to AI.” Meanwhile, only 9% of chief executives anticipate workforce reductions due to AI.
According to a topic summary generated by none other than Google’s Gemini AI program: “Although 46% of organizations in a 2026 report experienced AI-driven staff reductions, 77% actually reported hiring more workers in other areas to support AI integration, suggesting a net positive effect on hiring for many firms.”
Moreover, my work in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and in teaching innovation to children confirms my decades-old prediction that we now can create a super-educated generation. This is because a grade-schooler who works one-on-one with an AI- tutor in a play context — i.e., with a child-avatar in a video game — will prompt learning and creativity to become part of the student’s intuition and memory. This educational effort will begin with pre-school children and offer them the ultimate “head start” program.
This one-on-one AI-tutor approach is much more effective than book learning and classroom teaching alone and is much more efficient and economical: A child can turn on a computer, click on an internet site, and start to play with an AI-tutor.
Moreover, this AI super-educated generation will supersede geographic boundaries. Internet-friendly AI learning and teaching tools will be readily available to all — online, around the world. Child-avatar offerings, educational video games, and much more will be a mouse click away.
My gift to America on her 250th birthday is the non-profit Pioneering AI Foundation. I will continue my work through the Foundation on practical AI applications, such as creating a super-educated generation, making learning fun from a very early age, and other philanthropic projects. I will assign my AI patent to the non-profit Foundation. This will reflect my profound gratitude to America for all the blessings that it has given to me and my extended family.
God Bless America, land that I love!
