Manolis Kellis

You basically show up at the office as your AI is busy answering your phone call, making all your meetings, revising all your papers, et cetera.

And then you show up for those creative hours and you're like, all right, autopilot, I'm on.

And then you can basically do so, so much more that you would perhaps otherwise never get to.

because you're so overwhelmed with these mundane aspects of your job.

So I feel that AI can truly transform the human condition from realizing that we don't have jobs anymore.

We now have vocations.

And there's this beautiful analogy of three people laying bricks.

And somebody comes over and asks the first one, what are you doing?

He's like, oh, I'm laying bricks.

Second one, what are you doing?

I'm building a wall.

And the third one, what are you doing?

I'm building this beautiful cathedral.

So in a way, the first one has a job, the last one has a vocation.

And if you ask me, what are you doing?

Oh, I'm editing a paper, then I have a job.

are you doing i'm understanding human disease circuitry i have a vocation so in a way being able to allow us to enjoy more of our vocation by taking away offloading some of the job part of our daily activities so we all become the the builders of cathedrals correct

So ideas, maybe for some of us, maybe you and I are in the job of ideas, but other people are in the job of experiences.

Are other people in the job of emotions, of dancing, of creative artistic expression, of skydiving and you name it.

So basically these, again, the beauty of human diversity is exactly that, that what rocks my boat might be very different from what rocks other people's boat.