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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)

Though AI will certainly up-level and up-skill the people working in those roles significantly.

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

And

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

Yeah, that's a great question.

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

I think it has to do with how human or how personally we feel about the roles that AI is taking, right?

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

And perhaps there is something there around maybe that coding is almost a mathematical or physical process.

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

And so it doesn't necessarily need to be human.

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

We can envision AI is taking over it.

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

But that art and creativity feel very human.

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

It feels like something that we have always wanted and considered to be a human

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

creation, you know, that other species in the world maybe can't engage with.

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

And so maybe that's where the fear or the resistance comes from.

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

Judges and lawyers is a good example, right?

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

Like, I would certainly just like the right answer when it comes to the interpreting a legal text and saying, this is what you should do, right?

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

I think

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

I would be very okay myself handing that over to a lawyer, but I don't know if I would be okay handing over to a judge, an AI judge, the decision of whether or not I end up in prison or how my money ends up being distributed.

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

It seems like that feels almost like a societal, a human process that I still want another person to engage with for me, even if I don't know that person or I don't have any particular reason to trust that person more than an AI system.

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

Certainly everybody is going to sit at different places on this, but that's maybe

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

be perhaps the distinction in my head.

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

Yeah, I think we're already starting to see those trends in society.

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

For instance, there is some implicit value by a human artisan on Etsy as compared to a cheap product made by someone in China in a massive factory, right?