Reid Hoffman

Well, can the AI help me learn to be that human with AI?

Can the AI help me figure out which jobs would be good for me with the AI helping me to do them, etc?

Can the AI help me with the transition?

And so what we need to be doing is learning from the past and these lessons and transitions, and then deploying the technology to help us do that.

Because one of the amazing, unique things about AI is it's the first technology that can do that.

Previously, you were like a dock worker.

I was like, I'm a big, strong person.

well, that doesn't help me learn how to use a forklift.

Now the forklift is there, and now the fact that I'm a big strong person doesn't really matter.

So my competitive edge in this job doesn't really matter.

But now we have a forklift that will go, hey, sit here, give me direction in doing the following things.

Here's the ways that we can work together.

Here's the things that you need to watch out for in terms of how to use me and what kinds of things to do.

And here's the places where, as I currently understand it, I'm going to be bad and need help, and you can help me with.

And now I can do the job transition.

So that's the kind of thing that I think is why agency is so important to focus on.

And if you look at most of the things that people critique—

about these technologies, including AI, including smartphones, including cars, is it's this change in agency, whether it's like privacy or work and jobs or capabilities by the state, by other people, that then get people to be highly concerned.

And you're like, well, actually, in fact, if we go through it, if we do it in the right way,

It'll be magical, I think, anyway, but it can be less suffering on the path to being magical and better navigated if we do it the right way.