Deric Cheng

Yeah, I think that could be possible.

There are certainly worlds in which the productivity of all of our work just increases significantly because of the advent of AI.

I think the main concerns are that...

If you have a lot of competition for a different set of jobs, that inevitably pushes wages down, right?

And so the total amount of desirable or valuable work starts to come into play when it comes into how the economy will respond.

And the big question, of course, is whether or not there will be more valuable or desirable jobs or less.

And certainly that is completely outstanding.

And I think our position may be thinking about the AGI social contract as simply there is a sizable chance that it is less, right?

I don't think it's possible to rule that out given the implications of what AI capabilities might look like.

And in those cases that we should be at least at the very best ready to respond and to protect human outcomes.

I would love that, actually.

I think that would be really fun to be a dog therapist or a professional party person.

Yeah, that sounds really excellent.

I think that one, the jobs that I see as deeply, deeply resistant to automation really have to do with human to human connection, right?

I think that even with very, very powerful AIs,

we still have demand and desire to engage socially with other humans.

It's programmed into our nature and that by leaning into that, that we will still find meaning, purpose, value in our work, in our lives, but it might happen on a more local community-oriented basis, right?

Instead of doing tasks online for people like millions of miles away, we might be

building our communities locally.

I think that my general concern perhaps is that there just aren't that many economically desirable outcomes for many of these very desirable jobs.