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Chris Hipkins: Labour leader on the party's bid to help small businesses make use of AI · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Labour has announced another small business policy. It's the third
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  Speaker 2: since Chris Luxe and small business comments more than a
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  Speaker 2: week ago. This time it's to help small businesses join
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  Speaker 2: the AI Revolution. Leader Chris Hipkins is with us now,
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  Speaker 2: h Chippy, can I heaven before we get to that?
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  Speaker 2: Is Chris Luxon being rolled a good thing for you
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  Speaker 2: or a bad thing for you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of irrelevant to us. Regardless of who
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  Speaker 3: leads the National Party, they're going to have to answer
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  Speaker 3: to the mess that they've made of everything they said
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  Speaker 3: they were going to fix the economy, they've made it worse.
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  Speaker 3: They said they were going to fix unemployment. More people
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  Speaker 3: are losing their jobs. They said they were going to
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  Speaker 3: be pro business. Businesses are going into liquidation. So whoever
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  Speaker 3: leads the National Party, they're going to have to answer
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  Speaker 3: to that track record.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's bad for you, Chippy, because you're unpopular,
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  Speaker 2: and he's unpopular, and if they roll him and chuck
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  Speaker 2: somebody popular in there, you're in big trouble, aren't you.
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  Speaker 3: The National Party is busy fighting amongst themselves. I'm out
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  Speaker 3: there to talk about small businesses promoting the policies that
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  Speaker 3: can actually turn around to New Zealand's fortunes, while the
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  Speaker 3: National Party fighter amongst.
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  Speaker 2: Themselves, all right, how are you going to help with
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  Speaker 2: the AI?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we know that small businesses do want to adapt
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  Speaker 3: to AI, but they don't have big IT departments. They
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  Speaker 3: want a bit of additional support. So we can provide
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  Speaker 3: some of that additional sport and expertise to them so
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  Speaker 3: that they can weigh up how AI could help them,
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  Speaker 3: what the risks of U using AI could be. It's
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  Speaker 3: just leveling the playing fields to small businesses in that area.
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  Speaker 2: Do we need you guys to actually help us with AI?
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  Speaker 2: I mean literally we can go to AI and say hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a florist, how can AI help me?
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  Speaker 3: Now, this is about connecting small business with the expertise
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  Speaker 3: that can actually help them. So no, it isn't government
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  Speaker 3: doing that. It's about making sure that a small business
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  Speaker 3: can access that expertise that's out there. Big businesses have
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  Speaker 3: no trouble accessing that, but small businesses say that costs
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  Speaker 3: can be a big barrier to them accessing that expertise.
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  Speaker 3: We want to level that playing field by saying small businesses, yep,
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  Speaker 3: we want to make sure you can get that too.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Chibie, thanks very much, but I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Hopkins, Labor Party Leader.
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