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Deric Cheng

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
403 total appearances

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Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

For instance, there are many that need to be in person.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

And frankly, I just don't see that people are going to strongly desire AI nannies or primary school teachers or social workers or sports coaches for a long period of time.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

There's a lot of in-person movement.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

There's a lot of eye contact.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

There's a lot of

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

social experience that is like valuable and frankly i would expect those wages to rise and then a number of those individuals to go up as we move into an ai economy and then there are a number of uh positions that are more virtualizable for instance therapists have become very virtualizable a lot of us now take therapy online or life coaches or travel agents

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

And for those, I see, for example, that you will definitely still have a human therapist, but they will sit as a luxury good or as a premium, right?

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

They'll have to be strictly better than talking to a chat GPT agent, but that there is still value to be taken from the life experience of a real-world therapist, that people will still value maybe the eye contact or the knowledge that

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

somebody is genuinely out there supporting their work or their goals.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

And that might just become a luxury good.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

It just might become more expensive than like the chat GPT therapist, for example.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

Yeah.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

I think societally, we just are going to have a lot of resistance to handing over significant decision-making power to AI systems.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

I think culturally, it just isn't in our nature.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

We have a lot of negative resistance to AI in many forms right now, even with just commercials and

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

audio-visual content.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

And so I do believe that we are going to have a lot of resistance when it comes to judges, to legislators, to lawyers, definitely to politicians, even if you can show that these AI lawyers, for example, or judges are more impartial or

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

or fair.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

It just really is unlikely to be in human nature to trust fully these types of agents.

Future of Life Institute Podcast
How to Rebuild the Social Contract After AGI (with Deric Cheng)

And so I anticipate that that will just create, frankly, years, maybe even decades of resistance in which the political systems and the social systems that, for instance, certify lawyers will just not update to engage, like allow for AI lawyers.