Joel Pearson
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Talk about it like there's a pandemic of uncertainty that's spreading, which we know triggers stress and anxiety in people.
So simply not knowing the future is something that freaks out all humans or primates, all animals, really.
And I think, yeah, one of the things that you hear a lot is people compare, like talk about AI as a tech revolution.
They compare it to the internet, to the printing press or whatever other technical revolutions.
But I think that's not, that's a mistake.
So it's not really, yes, it's a technology, but the impact it's going to have is about intelligence.
So I think it's better to think about it as a intelligence revolution.
And that's something that humanity has never had before.
We've never had this sort of intelligence that can scale up, that we can all have in our pockets.
Yes, we've had the internet and things, but this is really different.
This is something that can do work, make decisions, and we don't know how good it's going to get, how far it's going to go.
So I don't think any of the other revolutions we've been through are a good guide for this.
It's completely different.
And therefore, I think, yeah, it is going to change every sort of level of society.
It's going to change our lives, what we do at home, what we do at work, everything in between.
And that amount of change needs to be the sort of the center, the focus of discussions around this.
Not the tech, not the companies, not the...