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Ari Meisel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
378 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

So in an ideal world, the idea of the replaceable founder is that we're replacing people up, not out. In reality, that doesn't always end up being the case. And sometimes people have to end up reinventing themselves and getting into a different line of work. But it's not so much like, are we taking the jobs? It's more like, just how are we going to adapt to that?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Because it's like an inevitability, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Because it's like an inevitability, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Because it's like an inevitability, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. Um, so I actually have a client who just bought six humanoid robots to work in his warehouse. Like that's, we're there. So I think it's called futurist. Maybe I can't remember the name of it, but like it's, they're getting delivered next week. Like this is, he's there, you know? So, It, on the one hand, you can think about it this way, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. Um, so I actually have a client who just bought six humanoid robots to work in his warehouse. Like that's, we're there. So I think it's called futurist. Maybe I can't remember the name of it, but like it's, they're getting delivered next week. Like this is, he's there, you know? So, It, on the one hand, you can think about it this way, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

Yeah. Um, so I actually have a client who just bought six humanoid robots to work in his warehouse. Like that's, we're there. So I think it's called futurist. Maybe I can't remember the name of it, but like it's, they're getting delivered next week. Like this is, he's there, you know? So, It, on the one hand, you can think about it this way, right?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

In an ideal world, what this ends up doing is making every product cheaper, right? So somebody with like a job that makes $7 an hour could still buy everything they want because, you know, it now costs 3 cents to make the thing because we don't have people doing it. So, and obviously I think that there's a lag for that kind of thing, but long-term, that's probably something that will happen.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

In an ideal world, what this ends up doing is making every product cheaper, right? So somebody with like a job that makes $7 an hour could still buy everything they want because, you know, it now costs 3 cents to make the thing because we don't have people doing it. So, and obviously I think that there's a lag for that kind of thing, but long-term, that's probably something that will happen.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

In an ideal world, what this ends up doing is making every product cheaper, right? So somebody with like a job that makes $7 an hour could still buy everything they want because, you know, it now costs 3 cents to make the thing because we don't have people doing it. So, and obviously I think that there's a lag for that kind of thing, but long-term, that's probably something that will happen.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

The more AI stuff that we have, the cheaper things can get. Although there is a, I can't remember the name of it. There is a, an effect. It's some like psychological effect where, uh, it has to do with it. It was, it's an old thing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

The more AI stuff that we have, the cheaper things can get. Although there is a, I can't remember the name of it. There is a, an effect. It's some like psychological effect where, uh, it has to do with it. It was, it's an old thing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

The more AI stuff that we have, the cheaper things can get. Although there is a, I can't remember the name of it. There is a, an effect. It's some like psychological effect where, uh, it has to do with it. It was, it's an old thing.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

It has to do with, uh, coal plants in the 1880s, but essentially the idea is as we get more and more efficient, the idea is that we have less jobs, we need less people. But the truth is when it actually ends up happening is we just end up building and making more of those efficient things. So same thing with like AI chips as the chips get cheaper. And we'll be able to do more faster.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

It has to do with, uh, coal plants in the 1880s, but essentially the idea is as we get more and more efficient, the idea is that we have less jobs, we need less people. But the truth is when it actually ends up happening is we just end up building and making more of those efficient things. So same thing with like AI chips as the chips get cheaper. And we'll be able to do more faster.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

It has to do with, uh, coal plants in the 1880s, but essentially the idea is as we get more and more efficient, the idea is that we have less jobs, we need less people. But the truth is when it actually ends up happening is we just end up building and making more of those efficient things. So same thing with like AI chips as the chips get cheaper. And we'll be able to do more faster.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

That doesn't mean we're going to need less. We're going to end up needing more and it will expand faster. So I think it's more like there's like a seesaw effect, right? So it's going to, we're going to lose some jobs and then some new jobs are created, lose some jobs and new jobs. And that's going to be really awful for a lot of people for sure.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

That doesn't mean we're going to need less. We're going to end up needing more and it will expand faster. So I think it's more like there's like a seesaw effect, right? So it's going to, we're going to lose some jobs and then some new jobs are created, lose some jobs and new jobs. And that's going to be really awful for a lot of people for sure.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

That doesn't mean we're going to need less. We're going to end up needing more and it will expand faster. So I think it's more like there's like a seesaw effect, right? So it's going to, we're going to lose some jobs and then some new jobs are created, lose some jobs and new jobs. And that's going to be really awful for a lot of people for sure.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
The Role of AI in Productivity with Ari Meisel

But the ones who don't change are the ones that will, you know, not come out on top.