Alan Kohler

Let me ask you, if somebody gave you a pill and said, this has got a 25% chance of killing you, would you swallow it?

Well, what's the upside?

Whatever the upside is, whatever it might be, it might be that it's going to make you incredibly intelligent, but 25% chance you die, would you do it?

Okay.

What about the thing about displacing workers?

Do you think that the massive investment that, you know, obviously you're undertaking and others are taking will be paid for by purely by productivity gains of existing, of the existing workforce, or will it have to be also partly paid for by the reduction of the workforce?

So are you saying that you don't think governments will have to come up with some restructure of the welfare system to help, you know, to come up with what some people call a universal basic income in order to pay people who are basically permanently out of work?

You don't think that's going to be required?

The job seeker allowance is not enough.

It's meant to just get you between jobs and you have to keep applying for jobs in order to get it.

So it's a different thing.

That's true.

Okay.

The other concern that people have is that it's a bubble, a stock market bubble, and it's going to burst at some point soon.

What do you think of that?

Well, just finally then, do you think about what life is going to be like in 10 years, say?

I mean, what are we going to be doing?

Will we have robots helping us?

That is an AI robot, you mean?

These things are safer too, aren't they?