'You Should Not Trust Me!' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns IIT Delhi Students On AI, Career Risks Ahead

00:00for a predictor of what the world is going to be like going forward. Um I don't think you should trust me for having good intuition of the rate of change. Um it young people always figure this out the best and the world you are all inheriting is going to be very different and you'll have to quickly develop your own intuitions and trust them. Um but I think the traditional career advice is probably not going to work as well >> and computing. My question is what do you say to the workers who fear that their jobs will be outdated in next 5 years and what skills should they be focusing on? Now >> anyone who says they're only excited or only fearful about AI is I think not being very thoughtful. I don't think

00:47it's two camps. I think there's a continuum of people based on whether you're 90% excited and 10% fearful or 90% fearful and 10% excited. But as with any change of this magnitude happening this quickly, um, and with this much unknown, this much promise, this much obvious peril, um, it's it you you have to be somewhere on that spectrum. You can't it can't be sort of at at either end. Um, a big part of that is what the impact on jobs is going to be. And I will caveat this with lots of other things by AI by saying that no one really knows, including us. There will be many surprises. Um, some jobs will totally go away. Many jobs will not change as much as it seems like they should with AI because we have, you

01:40know, we want someone else to be doing that. we still go want a human doctor to tell us things even if the we know the egg gives better advice or any many other set of examples uh or you know entrepreneurs will still start companies they'll just grow faster and they'll do more and it'll be more disruptive to existing jobs and then most of all every time in history that there's been a major technological shift we have underestimated how quickly the new jobs are going to come and how different they were going to be it'd be very hard to think about my job for example before computers were invented um and impossible to think about my job before say the industrial revolution. Um, there are jobs now that

02:26are incredibly good jobs that didn't exist as a category 20 years ago even. If someone from 500 years ago could look at the jobs of the world today, um, generally speaking, they would say about many of the jobs, um, certainly my job, you know, death's not a real job. You're doing fine. You could, you don't have to be working. You're like, you've got plenty of food. you've got access to great shelter. Like this is this is not a job they could have imagined and it wouldn't look like real work. I hope 100 years from now, not even 500, we would all look at the jobs and be like, "Those people are impossibly rich. They have everything they could ever want. They are making up ways to spend their time to entertain themselves. It's a,

03:13you know, it's a player of game style existence. They don't really need this." Um, and that is sort of the history of society building up more collective welfare for each other. Uh, and I think that's great, but we never run out of things to do. We have never gotten to the sort of like thing that people have theorized for for centuries now, which is technology is going to progress so much that we just sit around and do nothing. We find new things to do. We find new ways to express our creativity. Um, we find new ways to be useful to each other. you find new ways to, you know, gain status or whatever, whatever it is. Uh, many of you will eventually do jobs that don't exist today, even really as a

03:56concept. It doesn't mean that the transition is not painful. I expect for many people it will be very painful. Um, as society gets richer quickly, I hope we find new socioeconomic models to make it less painful. But I'm less worried about the long-term future. And I think we'll find new things to do in in not very long. >> So my question is, what is the biggest mistake you see young people make right now when they apparently prepare for AI? >> Man, I'm going to answer this. I hope this talk is not recorded. Uh, I think listening to old people is the biggest mistake young people make. I >> I think your your parents obviously love you more than anyone. They're extremely well-meaning. um for advice about how to live a happy

04:47life or how to be a a good person, there is no one you should listen to more than your parents. Um but for a predictor of what the world is going to be like going forward, um I don't think you should trust me for having good intuition of the rate of change. Um it young people always figure this out the best and the world you are all inheriting is going to be very different and you'll have to quickly develop your own intuitions and trust them. Um but I think the traditional career advice is probably not going to work as well. [music]

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