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for a predictor of what the world
is going to be like going forward. Um I

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don't think you should trust me
for having good intuition of the rate of

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change. Um it

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young people always figure this out the

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best and the world you are all

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inheriting is going to be very different

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and you'll have to quickly develop your

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own intuitions and trust them. Um but I

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think the traditional career advice is

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probably not going to work as well >>
and computing. My question is what do

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you say to the workers who fear that
their jobs will be outdated in next 5

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years and what skills should
they be focusing on? Now

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>> anyone who says they're only excited or

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only fearful about AI is I think not
being very thoughtful. I don't think

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it's two camps. I think there's a

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continuum of people based on whether

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you're 90% excited and 10% fearful or

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90% fearful and 10% excited. But as with

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any change of this magnitude happening
this quickly, um, and with this much

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unknown, this much promise, this much
obvious peril, um, it's it you you have

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to be somewhere on that spectrum.
You can't it can't be sort of at at either

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end. Um,

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a big part of that is what the impact on

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jobs is going to be. And

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I will caveat this with lots of other
things by AI by saying that no one

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really knows, including us. There will

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be many surprises. Um, some jobs will

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totally go away. Many jobs will not

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change as much as it seems like they
should with AI because we have, you

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know, we want someone else to be doing
that. we still go want a human doctor to

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tell us things even if the we know the

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egg gives better advice or any many

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other set of examples uh or you know

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entrepreneurs will still start companies
they'll just grow faster and they'll do

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more and it'll be more
disruptive to existing jobs

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and then most of all

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every time in history that there's
been a major technological shift we have

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underestimated how quickly
the new jobs are going to

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come and how different they were going

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to be it'd be very hard to think about

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my job for example before computers
were invented um and impossible to think

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about my job before say the industrial

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revolution. Um, there are jobs now that

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are

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incredibly good jobs that didn't exist

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as a category 20 years ago even. If

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someone from 500 years ago could look at

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the jobs of the world today, um,

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generally speaking, they would say about

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many of the jobs, um, certainly my job,

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you know, death's not a real job. You're
doing fine. You could, you don't have to

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be working. You're like, you've got
plenty of food. you've got access to

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great shelter. Like this is this is not

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a job they could have imagined and it

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wouldn't look like real work. I hope

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100 years from now, not even 500,
we would all look at the jobs and be like,

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"Those people are impossibly rich.
They have everything they could ever want.

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They are making up ways to spend their
time to entertain themselves. It's a,

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you know, it's a player of game style
existence. They don't really need this."

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Um, and

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that is sort of the history of society

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building up more collective
welfare for each other.

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Uh, and I think that's great, but we never

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run out of things to do. We have never
gotten to the sort of like thing that

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people have theorized for for centuries
now, which is technology is going to

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progress so much that we just sit around
and do nothing. We find new things to

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do. We find new ways to express
our creativity. Um, we find new ways to be

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useful to each other. you find new ways

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to, you know, gain status or whatever,

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whatever it is. Uh,

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many of you will eventually do jobs
that don't exist today, even really as a

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concept. It doesn't mean
that the transition is

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not painful. I expect for many people it

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will be very painful. Um,

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as society gets richer quickly, I hope

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we find new socioeconomic models to make
it less painful. But I'm less worried

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about the long-term future. And I think
we'll find new things to do in in not

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very long. >> So my question is,
what is the biggest

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mistake you see young people make right

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now when they apparently prepare for AI?

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>> Man, I'm going to answer this. I hope

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this talk is not recorded. Uh,

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I think listening to old people
is the biggest mistake young people make.

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I >> I think your your
parents obviously love

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you more than anyone.
They're extremely well-meaning.

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um for advice about how to live a happy

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life or how to be a a good person, there

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is no one you should listen to

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more than your parents. Um but

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for a predictor of what the world
is going to be like going forward, um I

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don't think you should trust me
for having good intuition of the rate of

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change. Um it

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young people always figure this out the

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best and the world you are all

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inheriting is going to be very different

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and you'll have to quickly develop your

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own intuitions and trust them. Um but I

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think the traditional career advice is

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probably not going to work as well.

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