Geoffrey Hinton

That certainly is one big aspect of the problem.

But there's another aspect, which is, if you use a tractor to replace physical labor, you need far fewer people now.

Other people can go off and do intellectual things.

But if you replace human intelligence, where are they going to go?

Where are people who work in a call center going to go

when an AI can do their job cheaper and better.

You can look at human history in an interesting way as getting rid of limitations.

So a long time ago, we had the limitation you had to worry about where your next meal was coming from.

Agriculture got rid of that.

It introduced a lot of other problems, but it got rid of that particular worry.

Then we had the limitation you couldn't travel very far.

Well, the bicycle helped a lot with that, and cars and airplanes.

We got over that kind of limitation.

For a long time, we had the limitation.

We were the ones who had to do the thinking.

We're just about to get over that limitation, and it's not clear what happens once you've got over all the limitations.

People like Sam Altman think it'll be wonderful.

It's becoming to seem more essential, but it has lots of problems.

So one problem is many people get their sense of self-worth from the job they do, and it won't deal with the dignity issue.

Another problem is the tax base.