Dr. Jeff Beck

I don't really want to have a situation where humans are reduced to value function selectors.

They're just basically going, oh, no, I don't like that outcome.

Do this instead.

I do want to see a future where we have an AI that actually improves our understanding of the world.

And simply automating everything runs the risk that you specified, right?

It runs the risk of people becoming couch potatoes that just watch TV and occasionally say, like, yeah, these chips are no good.

That seems like a bad outcome to me.

I worry less about that, I think, than some because people are remarkably adaptable.

Right.

I mean, you know, you have all these arguments about like, oh, you know, this new technology comes along and it's going to completely destroy this way of life.

And, you know, and that's going to be awful for people.

And it is maybe in the short term.

You know, I think of like tractors.

Right.

Or just go back.

How many hundred years do you have to go back when like 99 percent of people were involved in agriculture and now it's like, what, 200?

right i consider that a solid improvement right because it allowed the rest of us to it allowed us to do a bunch of other things that we find more satisfying they're more interesting it allowed us to like you know like i can read you know spend some time reading a book don't have to labor in the fields all day

Um, that's the future that I sort of see.

And that's the future that I hope for is that is, is one in which, you know, all of these artificial agents running around and doing things autonomously, um, are there to, to free us up to pursue more interesting and more, you know, you know, to improve ourselves in, in, in, in, in more interesting ways.

But at the end of the day, it's just another technology, you know, at least initially it'll just be another technology like the tractor, um,