Max Tegmark

They're out there now, like GPT-4.

So wake-up call is first step.

Once you've woken up, then got to slow down a little bit the risky stuff to give a chance to everyone who's woken up to catch up on the safety front.

The nature of our entire education system

is completely turned on its head.

I mean, some English professors, some English teachers are beginning to really freak out now, right?

They give an essay assignment and they get back all this fantastic prose, like this is the style of Hemingway.

And then they realize they have to completely rethink.

And even, you know,

Just like we stopped teaching writing scripts.

Is that what you say in English?

Yeah, handwritten, yeah.

Yeah, when everybody started typing, you know, like so much of what we teach our kids today.

It's like a philosophy seminar.

And like, I'm an educator myself, so it pains me to see this, say this, but I feel our education right now is completely obsoleted by what's happening.

You know, you put a kid into first grade and then you're envisioning, and then they're going to come out of high school 12 years later,

And you've already pre-planned now what they're gonna learn when you're not even sure if there's gonna be any world left to come out to.

Clearly, you need to have a much more opportunistic education system that keeps adapting itself very rapidly as society readapts.

The skills that were really useful when the curriculum was written, I mean, how many of those skills are gonna get you a job in 12 years?

I mean, seriously.