Jeff Beck: preference

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…What will the value of work be if the AIs can do everything and there's nothing left for us to do? I don't think that will ever be the case that the AIs can do everything. Like I said, the future I worry about is 1 where like it's, you know, the the sole role of people is like sitting around like making sure the AIs aren't aren't going rogue and and and things like that, which I don't consider a good outcome. I would really like to see human improvement. You know, I I I envision a future of, I don't know, this is like cybernetic transhumanism, if I'm gonna go sci fi on this, right, where where, you know, the technology and us evolve together in a way that's beneficial for both. That's the goal. You know, are there these dystopic possibilities where like, oh, well, what are humans in a world where, well what are they? What are what are humans in a world where everything can be done by a robot? Yep. You know, that's that's a good question. And that's and at the end of the day, right, they end up just becoming like reward function selectors. Right? They end up just sort of saying, oh, I don't like this and I do like that, and they're basically, you know, I mean, you end up with a sit it is another nightmare scenario. I don't like talking about these dystopian futures because honestly, I think people are too clever, and I think people are too motivated, and people are too interested in how the world really works, and then people are too interested in actually understanding things that they will never stop. That AI will become a partner, not an adversary or a crutch. And that's that's that's what I think will happen because that's but that that's a statement more about my belief about humans than it is about my belief about the development of AI. You know, am a techno optimist, if you will. Mhmm. Not a not a pessimist. I believe that we will find a way to adapt to an ever changing world as we have done for millions of years, including 1 that includes technology that alleviates most of our labors. On that, there's an AI literacy thing because AI has moved so quickly now that certainly my parents don't understand anything about it. But by the same token, policymakers don't understand anything about it. And there are people saying AI is going to kill everyone. And there's people making negative arguments. There's people making positive arguments. There's a bit of a fog of war now because there are so many people saying different things about AI. How should they make sense of…

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