Mustafa Suleyman

because I think wisdom in the 21st century is being able to hold multiple confusing or contradictory ideas in working memory at the same time and navigate a path through those things, which doesn't leave you sort of characterizing those who disagree with you or somehow like see things slightly differently in a negative or sort of unconstructive way.

Yeah, so in the past, the goal has been to invent things and have science make our lives calmer and happier and healthier.

And so it is true

that this AI moment is going to deliver the greatest boost to productivity in the history of our species in the next couple of decades.

And the race has been, how do we unlock these capabilities as fast as possible?

That to me is unquestionable.

We want to create and produce and invent and solve challenges.

I don't think that makes me an optimist.

I think that makes me a good predictor of the underlying trends.

And that's what we did with steam and oil and electricity and wind and food systems.

At the same time, it is also going to create the most change in a disruptive, positive and negative version of disruptive, way we've ever seen.

And we've seen this explosion of creativity, certainly in the last couple centuries, but that's also been the history of our species, right?

And that is going to be incredibly destabilizing to the way that we currently understand the world to be, the way that we work, the way our politics operates, fundamentally what it even means to be human.

So the goal there has been proliferate, spread it as far and wide as possible so that everyone can enjoy the benefits immediately.

Now, the thing that I've speculated about, which is the containment hypothesis,

So we're about to go through a revolution.

And I think that, you know, in that world, I'm both optimistic and there are parts of me that do feel pessimistic.

is that if we do that this time with AI technologies in a completely unfiltered way, then that has the potential to empower everybody to have a massive impact on everybody else in real time.

So we aren't just talking about spreading information and knowledge, that's one part of it, but increasingly your AI agents or your co-pilots will be able to actually do things in the real world and in the digital world.

Yeah, so in the past, the goal has been to invent things and have science make our lives calmer and happier and healthier.