Cassie Kozyrkov

This new thing, it's probably something difficult.

Let's leave it for somebody else to deal with.

Whereas all you need to do is know what you want and speak what you want.

But you know what?

Knowing what you want, that's the hardest thing, isn't it?

No, I'm happy to because we're almost there, aren't we?

See, 18-year-old me, back at the University of Chicago, was operating in a world where individual things are kept

individual, right?

Individuals themselves have some opportunity for impact, but it's on human scale.

And then when we have these automation tools that are able to scale ourselves up a lot, when we increase ourselves with technology, which is what this technology allows now,

gives us unprecedented opportunities to impact the world.

Opportunities at the scales reserved centuries ago for the likes of kings and popes and such.

Right?

Now individuals can with technology scale themselves.

When we scale ourselves with technology we also make it

easier, unfortunately, to step on the people around us.

And so if it's just you steering your life a little bit better, you know, and getting some compounding value from better decision making, you know, that's cute and that's okay.

But what if your decisions actually have a lot of impact on the world?

Well, then it's time to be much more thoughtful and much more careful, much more responsible about how you go about things.

And AI, you see, AI in this equation, what Silicon Valley wants you to hear about all the time is essentially a proliferation of different kind of magic, magic genies.