Rory Stewart

It doesn't feel like it because it's so second nature to us.

It's just, it's all built into our brains from evolution.

And moreover, the robots don't exist.

So we can't actually build the equivalent of a human hand in terms of just how fine our kind of touch perception is.

And so over the period that we're moving from AI that we have now to AI that far exceeds kind of human cognitive capabilities, there will be complementarity between that AI and human workers.

If only, I think this is for many reasons, but if only because we are able to act in the world and we have these fine motor skills and the robots haven't yet been built.

And so this means there'll be this period, which is just a one-off gain where wages for humans will go much, much higher.

because we are able to go and build the robots that will then replace ourselves.

And so we'll have, you know, so we can use, you can use your phone.

It has a camera, it has an audio.

It can be like here.

You're attached to your head.

The AI can be telling you what to do.

It's like you've got this coach, this manager, doing exactly the physical movements so that you can build these robots.

Yeah.

I mean, it's actually, completely honestly, this is something that I, you know, less aware than get like a lot of intrusive thoughts about.

It's like, I know all these people I was close to and like good friends with.

And we're all engaged in this kind of ethical project together.

And now some of them are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, even kind of billions and so on.

And from an ethical perspective, I think it's good that I have made all this noise about saying like, well, this is my income and I'm not gonna live beyond that because it means that I kind of can't get tempted by, it would be extremely embarrassing for me if I said, well, actually I'm gonna give up on all that and take the big salary.