Reid Hoffman: belief

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…Say I gained from it, but I’m doing fine. I just can’t gain that much, no matter how good it is. My theory is people, say, in Kenya, where there’s a lot of internet access that’s good enough — they’ll have some cheaper open-source model. The young Kenyans who are very smart and ambitious will gain enormous amounts, and the AI itself will send to a trusted intermediary information about their ability. They will, in fact, get phenomenal job offers from other places, and they will gain the most. Now, that might be wrong, but that would be my answer. I think that’s true, although I think that’s because the more that we have a good global connectivity, the more we have a rise of talent from everywhere. AI, added to that connectivity, will exactly amplify that. I do think that the notion of human application — the people who are best amplified or best connected into our global ecosystem — and I think we all benefit from it. One of the things that you and I share about the joy of amplifying talent from everywhere is that, in fact, amplifying talent benefits all of us. Are the mediocre wordcels the biggest losers? Will Marc Andreessen go away happy, so to speak? [laughs]…

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