Jamie Metzl

We're not some kind of disjointed brains walking around coincidentally with these physical bodies.

It's all one thing.

So I definitely believe in machine intelligence.

Machine may be super intelligence, but we're going to have to recognize that there's a Venn diagram of us and machines, and there are going to be some areas where there's overlap.

But the people who are saying

that we're on the verge of AGI, of machines doing everything that humans can do, or that humans are the new Neanderthals.

I just don't buy it.

I think that humans, we have so many skills and we're selling ourselves short.

And frankly, I think that a lot of the people who are promoting this narrative are a bit self-interested.

And the message should be humans are incredible.

These machines are incredible.

We are building these machines.

Let's build them in a way that makes everybody's lives better.

And that won't be perfect.

And we'll have some screw ups along the way, as we've had with every technology.

And you can't have the positives without at least some negatives.

But this is fatalism that AI is going to take over everything and humans are finished.

I think it's really destructive.

Definitely the way you work is going to change, but the name of the game is figuring out how can you help your humans be the best possible humans doing essentially inherently human stuff?

And then how can you have machines doing essentially machine stuff?