Reid Hoffman

And so human beings will be replaced by other human beings using AI, and in some cases by AI, but there will also be a bunch of new jobs created too.

And just like we didn't have a chance to really envision it in the future...

We have to believe it's going to happen.

Now, if you said, we've now created our science fiction paradise of Star Trek, and no human beings need to work anymore, what happens?

You go, well, you know, by the way, that's called a good circumstance, and we'll figure it out.

And, you know, we've had societies like European and other nobility where there was entire groups of people, classes of people who didn't have to work,

and we may do with our lives.

So even if we get there, so I think there will be difficulty in transition, but like an amazing outcome.

And then you say, well, why are you so passionate and so positive about this?

Well, today we have line of sight to creating on your smartphone, a medical assistant or tutor that is better than your average doctor and is a tutor on every subject for every age.

We just need to make that available to every human to help people.

You know, the, you know, eight plus billion of us around the world just by having access to a smartphone.

I think that's one of the things that I think is, is like super important.

And that's what we're, like all the doomer and gloomers, you know, essentially, you know, are delaying that future.

And that delay has a huge cost in human suffering.

Well, so, thank you for reading the book and asking questions from it.

So, look, what people don't realize is every new major general purpose technology has a discourse that's very much, like, parallel to the one we're having today, which is this new technology is going to destroy society.

So, like, when Carlos came out, it was like, oh, you know, you know, like...

men, because it was mostly men wage earners back then, are going to stop getting married and everything else because they're going to be saving up for the car and it's going to destroy our institutions of marriage.

And, you know, these are, you know, kind of dangerous for what happens in the streets.